Abstinence Quote by Paul Lafargue

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

— Felix Guattari

“In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production, and that…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be…

— Albert Einstein

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

“It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while at the…

— Karl Marx

We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such…

— Ludwig von Mises

The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people.…

— Ludwig von Mises

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

— Karl Marx

“In the second half of the twentieth century humankind almost obliterated itself in an argument about production methods.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought to be reinvested in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction…

— Nicholas Murray Butler