“Capital is the buffer that protects the taxpayer from the mistakes of the banker.”— Charles W. Calomiris
“The Berlin Wall is down, and the world is wired. The flow of capital is now driven by the new information standard.”— Walter Wriston
“The export of capital, especially since it has assumed the form of industrial and finance capital, has enormously accelerated the overthrow of all the old pre-capitalist social relations.”— Rudolf Hilferding
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.”— John L. Lewis