Able Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.

— Mencius

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is…

— Thomas Jefferson

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

— Aldous Huxley

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

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

— William Feather

capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any…

— Thomas Malthus

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

— Vladimir Lenin

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

— David Harvey

Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns…

— Pope Francis

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth…

— Ludwig von Mises

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi