Principles of Political Economy Quotes

“The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief, and work-people without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by themselves.”
― John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism

“The present system is not, as many Socialists believe, hurrying us into a state of general indigence and slavery from which only Socialism can save us”
― John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism

“the object [which] ought to be principally aimed at ... is not the subversion of the system of individual property, but the improvement of it, and the full participation of every member of the community in its benefits”
― John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism

“La condición estacionaria del capital y de la población no implica un estado estacionario del mejoramiento humano. Habría muchas oportunidades para todo tipo de mentalidades culturales, para el progreso moral, social, para perfeccionar el arte de vivir si las mentes dejasen de centrarse en el arte de medrar"
Principios de Economía Política”
― John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism