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Accumulation Quotes by Immanuel Wallerstein
- What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a…
- The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of…
- The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism…
- This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong…
- This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their…
- The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to…
More Accumulation Quotes
- Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. — David Byrne
- I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. — Noam Chomsky
- The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than… — Richard Goldschmidt
- Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital… — Mahnaz Afkhami
- When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly
- Courage is only an accumulation of small steps. — Gyorgy Konrad
- It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. — Okakura Kakuzo
- Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in… — William J. Clinton
- We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves… — Anne Roiphe
- Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate,… — Brenda Ueland
- We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created… — Calvin Coolidge