Consequence Quote by Aldous Huxley

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

— Martin O'Malley

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend…

— Paul Hawken

When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many bringing a…

— David Kim

Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a…

— George Monbiot

Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society…

— Tim Jackson

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants,…

— Ludwig von Mises

We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And…

— Kalle Lasn

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

— John Maynard Keynes

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

— Desmond Tutu

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

— Thomas Piketty

If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already…

— Jaggi Vasudev