Capital Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Capital.
Top Quotes
“Bourgeoisie”
“Ruling class”
“Rate of return”
“Property rights”
“Primitive accumulation of capital”
“Capitals accumulate faster than population.”
“Wikipedia: Capital”
“The primary capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity”
“Wiktionary: Capital”
“To have a great capital is not so necessary as to know how to manage a small one, and never to be without a little.”
“In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.”
“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
“Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.”
“Capitalism is the condition of possessing capital; the position of a capitalist; a system which favours the existence of capitalists.”
“Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.”
“Kapital ist tote Arbeit, die, vampirgleich, nur durch das Einsaugen lebendiger Arbeit lebt und die um so mehr lebt, je mehr lebendige Arbeit sie einsaugt.”
“Capital is money, capital is commodities. … By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”
“Capital is money, but money as a process, which reproduces and increases its value. Capital arises only when the owner of the means of production finds workers on the market as sellers of their own labor power.”
“As we have repeatedly seen over the last decade, capital frequently seizes moments of crisis as a moment of opportunity — a chance to implement radical change that was previously blocked or appeared impossible.”
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”