#capital

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#labor #work #life

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#economic-justice #racism #social-justice #socialism #truth

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalism #chains #class #crush #emancipate

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#education #k-12 #problem #socialism #solution

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#earn #everyone #few #goods #guiding

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#capitalize #comes #expect #prepare #worst

I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live. ↗

— Lee Child

#america #capital #city #course #each

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#believe #capital #conception #death #except

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#been #capitalism #cards #could #credit

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#because #capitalist #capitalist society #communications #consist