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“It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production, operating in a given environment of technique, natural resources, capital equipment and effective demand. This is why we have been able to take labour as the sole physical unit which we require in our economic system, apart from units of money and of time.”

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.”

Wisdom Politics Natural Economy Liberalism Labour Labourers

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out.”

Ifs World Kind Different Actors Politics Economy Economic Scene Universal Sells Credit Isolation Liberalism Labour Capitalist Connecting Helplessness

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!”

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”

People Ifs Government Care America Politics Capitalism Economics Labour Founding Banking Our Founding Fathers Us Founding Fathers Pretence

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 39: 13 November 1802 to 3 March 1803

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 39: 13 November 1802 to 3 March 1803

“An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.”

Giving Mind Political Politics Pay Sacrifice Members Originals Characteristics Labour Parliament Influential Members Of Parliament

Book:The collected works of Walter Bagehot

Source: The collected works of Walter Bagehot