Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital , can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.
Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.
From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one whokills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment. . . It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.
I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum at the heart of their capital. Our fate can be different; but only if we start doing things differently.
. . . a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.
The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch.
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.
I am a feminist with a capital 'F'.
A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
I have money, but my most important capital is the trust of the people.
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.