#capital

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#capitalism

Let him come to Charcy, with his hithertos and his wherefores, and there he will find me, and with all the might of my kingdom I will scourge him from the field. "And if you want a personal message," said Laurent, "You can tell my uncle boykiller that he can cut the head off every child from here to the capital. It won't make him into a king, it will simply mean he has no one left to fuck. ↗

— S.U. Pacat

#capitalism

Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater! ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#psychoanalysis #shit #capitalism

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#capital #cease #cease to exist #cent #command

My name is out there right now. I'm creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it. ↗

— Christian Siriano

#creative #i #innovative #name #now

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#capitalists #cease #determined #device #enable

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#between #capital #creation #distribution #done

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#appearance #between #capital #deceptive #labor

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bad news #ban #because #build #capital

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#capitalist #clearly #did #efficiency #exist