Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.