The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitraryand inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Unlike the Laws of Production, those of Distribution are partly of human institution, since the manner in which wealth is distributed in any given society, depends on the statutes or usages therein obtaining.

-Mill,John Stuart
  Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

Political economy (the economyof a State, orofcitizens) consists simply in the production, preservation, and distribution, at fittest time and place, of useful or pleasurable things.

-Ruskin,John
  Unto this Last, essay 2.

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

-Stein, Herbert
  Washington Bedtime Stories.