Capital Quotes

1029 Capital quotes by 716 unique authors

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation… — Abraham Lincoln
Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources.… — Eric Kierans
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital. — John Maynard Keynes
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or… — Unknown Author
Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond. — Eric Kierans
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous… — Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating… — David Korten
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… — Immanuel Wallerstein
An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with the objective of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
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… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
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… — Immanuel Wallerstein
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… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the… — Albert Camus
Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or… — Kofi Annan
Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a… — David Korten
If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment… — Unknown Author
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must… — Michael Parenti
The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has… — Remy de Gourmont
I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a… — Laurene Powell Jobs
You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot in a very… — Richard Dennis
Success...Is all about being able to extend love to people...not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little, task by task,… — Ralph Fiennes
I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about it, because they… — Stephen Colbert
There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger… — Bill Engvall

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