#capita

I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital. ↗

— John Henry Carver

#came #canberra #capital #car #did

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#capitalism #causes #competition #filthy #find

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? ↗

— Fidel Castro

#africa #america #asia #capitalism #failure

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#capitalism #money #socialists #throw #using

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#crisis #driving #each #either #idea

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#capital #character #character assassination #counsels #dark

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas. ↗

— Harvey S. Firestone

#business #capital #experience #get #ideas

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital. ↗

— Angela Davis

#capital #globalization #increasingly #labor #labor movement

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it contributed 20%-30% to Britain's GDP but how it affects the lives of the millions who live and work there. What kind of lives are available to them? Can they afford to live there? If they can't, it is not compensation that London is also a paradise for the ultra-rich. Can they get decently paid jobs or jobs at all? If they can't, don't brag about all those Michelin-starred restaurants and their self-dramatising chefs. Or schooling for children? Inadequate schools are not offset by the fact that London universities could field a football team of Nobel prize winners. ↗

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

#capitalism #economics #education #london #morality

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#capital #come #doing #dysfunctional #elected