"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth."
- Alfred Marshall
"What capital does for production is to afford the shelter, protection, tools, and materials which the work requires, and to feed and otherwise maintain the laborers during the process. Whatever things are destined for this use -- destined to supply productive labour with these various prerequisites -- are Capital."
- John Stuart Mill, The Principles of Political Economy
"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Capital is dead labor that, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."
- Karl Marx, Capital
