Compassion Quote by Leland Stanford

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great,…

— William Graham Sumner

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they…

— William Cowper Brann

“Capitalism distinguishes ‘capital’ from mere ‘wealth’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments…

— Karl Marx

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability…

— Will Durant

The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of…

— Irving Fisher

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law…

— Leland Stanford

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

— Thomas Piketty

“within the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productiveness of labour are brought about at the cost of the individual labourer; all…

— Karl Marx

If capital produces most of the economy's wealth and income is distributed on the basis of productive input, the individual can hardly reach his…

— Louis O. Kelso

When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and…

— Thomas Piketty

“Capital requires the separation of the worker from the means of production and subsistence”

— Peter Linebaugh