Capital Quotes - page 2

we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment. (William Stanley Jevons)
Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. View quote
C. Wright Mills
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. View quote
Henry Ford
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. View quote
Karl Marx
In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages. (David Dinkins)
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. View quote
Samuel McChord Crothers
Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. View quote
Ann Macbeth
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully. View quote
Bruce Babbitt
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. View quote
David Korten
One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in. View quote
Henry Kravis
These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost. View quote
Norm Dicks
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. View quote
Richard Attenborough
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. View quote
Daniel Webster
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country. View quote
Indira Gandhi
I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches. (Frank Abagnale)
I also know that Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big-and takes on that damned capital C-they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths. View quote
David Gerrold
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants. View quote
Jean-Paul Marat
To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake... View quote
Jean-Paul Marat
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein