Capital Quotes

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Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless… — Karl Liebknecht
In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned… — Warren Buffett
Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car. — James Adams
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions. — Ludwig von Mises
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any… — Merton Miller
It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they… — H. L. Mencken
All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don’t have… — DJ Spooky
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of… — Joe Elliott
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. — Jesse Jackson
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its… — Walter Lippmann
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people… — Jesse Jackson
King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men… — Diodorus Siculus
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed. — Abraham Lincoln
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that… — Brooks Atkinson
New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world. — John Steinbeck
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be… — Joseph Epstein
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had… — John Stuart Mill
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. — Calvin Trillin
The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because… — Paul Hawken
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in… — Ludwig von Mises
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance… — Gunnar Myrdal
People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and… — Armand Hammer

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