Compelling Quote by Henry Charles Carey

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product…

— Henry Charles Carey

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of…

— Marvin Harris

The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed…

— Ludwig von Mises

Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies -…

— Felix Guattari

Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized…

— Hilaire Belloc

The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit…

— Karl Marx

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by…

— Thomas Malthus

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We have continued reason to express our profound gratitude to the Great Creator of All Things for numberless benefits conferred upon us as a…

— John Tyler

The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of…

— Lesslie Newbigin

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition,…

— Adam Smith