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Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.
Adam Smith— 1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.
Capitals accumulate faster than population;
thomas malthus— Karl Marx, Grundrisse, Notebook III, The Chapter on Capital, p. 271
Capitals accumulate faster than the population; thus wages; thus population; thus grain prices; thus the difficulty of production and hence the exchange values .
karl marx— Notebook III, The Chapter on Capital, p.271
Capitals accumulate faster than population;
— Karl Marx, Grundrisse, Notebook III, The Chapter on Capital, p. 271
Capitals accumulate faster than population.
— Karl Marx, Grundrisse, Notebook III, The Chapter on Capital, p. 271
In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to Capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.
james a. michener— First lines
His capital is continually going from him in one shape, and returning to him in another, and it is only by means of such circulation, or successive exchanges, that it can yield him any profit. Such Capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating Capitals.
Adam Smith— Chapter I, p. 305
To give the monopoly of the home-market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their Capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.
Adam Smith— Chapter II, p. 489
That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an established church which was not their church; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom lived in distant Capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That was the Irish question.
benjamin disraeli— Speech in the House of Commons (16 February 1844).
King Marthanda Varma founder of Travancore, made Trivandrum his capital and even after his rule ended the city continued to be the capital of the State of Travancore. When Kerala was formed as a state in 1956 the city was unanimously chosen to continue as the capital continuing two centuries of tradition.... It is a small city compared to the other state Capitals and thus retains its charm.
— Aline Dobbie, in "India: The Elephant's Blessing", p.128
Naples and Paris : the two only Capitals.
— Stendhal, as quoted in "Naples and Paris, the true capitals" by Marco Cesario, in ANSAmed.info (24 October 2007)
His capital is continually going from him in one shape, and returning to him in another, and it is only by means of such circulation, or successive exchanges, that it can yield him any profit. Such Capitals, therefore, may very properly be called circulating Capitals.
— Adam Smith (1776) The Wealth of Nations Book II Chapter I, p. 305
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic , an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the Capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw , Berlin , Prague , Vienna , Budapest , Belgrade , Bucharest and Sofia , all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow .
— Winston Churchill, speaking in 1946 at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, United States
— Sinews of Peace. (2009, July 29). In Wikisource, The Free Library.
In its beginnings, the credit system sneaks in as a modest helper of accumulation and draws by invisible threads the money resources scattered all over the surface of society into the hands of individual or associated capitalists. But soon it becomes a new and formidable weapon in the competitive struggle, and finally it transforms itself into an immense social mechanism for the centralisation of Capitals.
karl marx— Vol. I, Ch. 25, Section 2, pg.687
Panaji (commonly known as Panjim) is an anomaly among Indian state Capitals, as clean, friendly and manageable as many others are chaotic, frustrating and miserable.
Sarina Singh— Lonely Planet India (15 September 2010), p.864
