535 Capital Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Abraham Lincoln

Fruit Superior First Consideration Independent Only Could Higher Never Had Prior Existed Labor Capital Much Deserves

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. Karl Marx

Living More Only Dead Labor Which Capital Sucking Sucks Lives

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize. Theodore Roosevelt

Organization Must Era Labor Essential Capital Should Organize Therefore

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. Karl Marx

Living Society Independent Individuality Bourgeois Person Dependent While Capital

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Arthur Conan Doyle

Mistake Before Data Capital

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. P. T. Barnum

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Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. Clint Eastwood

Me Guidance Innocent Crime Society Crimes Punishment Would Would-Be Adult Most Because Children Against Capital Capital Punishment Reason Need

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits. Henry Giroux

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The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. John F. Kennedy

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. Henry Ford

Charity Crime Poverty Punishment Wrong Cure Capital Capital Punishment Fundamentally

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system. Bill Gates

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg

Class Too Proletariat Rising Bourgeois Historical Undoubtedly Domination Against Capital Working Working-Class Socialist Grave Necessity

First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever. Benjamin Netanyahu

People Will First Jewish People State Arafat Remain Divided Never Wrong First Of All Israel Capital Ever Jerusalem Jewish

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right. Jesse Jackson

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud

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There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. William Tecumseh Sherman

Tired Words Better Will Argument Oppose Other Insane Classes Soon Between Armed Come Contest Shell Howling Labor Stop Cannon Mean Them Capital Shot Lower Strata Each

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. Alfred Marshall

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If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant. Cesare Beccaria

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