The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
I don't feel like I'm an artist with a capital 'A.'
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.
In capitalism, man exploits man. In socialism, it’s exactly the opposite.
The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.
My main capital isn't the money. I respect myself; I respect my country.
Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.
Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge come from? A moral critique of capitalism, emphasizing the ways in which it leads to suffering, only reinforces ca...
Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the ...
Yet despite...accommodations with commerce, Möser regarded the market as primarily a threat--to the artisanal citizens of the town, to the traditional wants of the peasantry, and to the political structure to society, since it created a growing clas...
I realized that with everything I did from that point onward, I would have to ask myself this question: "How would I feel if what I'm doing right now is written up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times or if it is on tele...
I think politics is deadly to write about, frankly. If you have a political agenda and you set out to write a novel to prove that, say, capitalism should crumble, then it's going to be a really bad novel. Very few people have been able to deal with p...
Content is not mere facts, drummed into tender little minds under the relentless pounding of rote learning. Content--even the date of the Quebec Act, Confederation, or the Battle of Vimy Ridge, or the name of the first prime minister-- is cultural ca...
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
I hate that it sounds like a punishment.
