Capital-accumulation Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.

— Julian Huxley

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

— Socrates

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

— Amartya Sen

“Beyond the speculative and often fraudulent froth that characterizes much of neoliberal financial manipulation, there lies a deeper process that entails the springing of…

— David Harvey

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient…

— Amartya Sen

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving…

— Thomas R. Kelly

“Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest…

— André Gunder Frank

“I guess the mass of all the things you love in the world is less than or equal to the combined weight of all…

— Chelsea Martin

“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under the rubric…

— David Harvey

For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To…

— William Shakespeare

Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are…

— Angus Deaton

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries…

— Paul Dirac