Capital Quote by Anand Giridharadas Download Open image “We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.” — Anand Giridharadas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capital Get Know Rid Slave trade Trade
A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power. — William C. Rhoden Copy Share Image
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they… — George Grey Copy Share Image
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The fact that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves doesn't devalue what he wrote. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“The slave trade was not controlled by any state or government. It was a purely economic enterprise, organised and financed by the free market according to the laws of supply and demand. Private slave-trading companies sold shares on the Amsterdam, London and Paris stock exchanges. Middle-class Europeans looking for a good investment bought these shares. Relying on this money, the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share
The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
“that his tendency to hate could ultimately save his life. In fact, in” — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Taking offense is, in fact, one of the few things that brings us together. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated. — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is… — Warren Stephens Copy Share Image
Like every other sovereign nation, Israel has the right to determine its own capital. — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate… — Evan Williams Copy Share Image
The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our credibility and… — Lyor Cohen Copy Share Image
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Mumbai and Gujarat are the two places that can be termed as the capital of theatre. — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a… — Douglas Leone Copy Share Image
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
