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capitalist-economy usury sin
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury. Barbara Tuchman
capitalist class matter mothers prevent shoots stops
The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers. Ella R. Bloor
capitalist-economy liberty libertarian
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. Ludwig von Mises
capitalist experience profits socialist
There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses. Cristina Kirchner
capitalist government
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. Erno Rubik
capitalist class growth investing middle source thriving
A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do. Nick Hanauer
capitalist riding stop
I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die. Andrew Mason
capitalist consume either people relevant requires responsibility system
Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics. Ben Shapiro
capitalist-economy routine employment
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not, Janet Yellen
money giving grace
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. Charles Caleb Colton
money evil gains
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst. Charles Caleb Colton
money greatest-wealth want
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. Charles Caleb Colton
money battle half
economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well. Charles Spurgeon
money people saving
So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. Alan Watts
money thinking people
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. Alan Watts
money children clothes
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Alan Paton
money law issues
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law. Alan Greenspan
money gold wealth
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Alan Greenspan
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. Alan Watts
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work-out effort feels
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do. Dave Chappelle
work-out levels mail
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave. Dave Chappelle