Agriculture Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

— David Harvey

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— William Feather

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

— Thomas Piketty

The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and…

— Peter Drucker

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and…

— Amory Lovins

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

— Vladimir Lenin

capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the…

— Millicent Fawcett