Communication Quote by William Graham Sumner

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should…

— Fernand Braudel

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

History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads,…

— Ludwig von Mises

The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could…

— John Maynard Keynes

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

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

In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be…

— Warren Buffett

Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as…

— Paul Hawken

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income…

— Henry George

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

— Vladimir Lenin

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

— Paul Hawken