“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”

—  Mahatma Gandhi

Harijan (28 July 1949) p. 219
1940s

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed." by Mahatma Gandhi?
Mahatma Gandhi photo
Mahatma Gandhi 238
pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948

Related quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s
Source: As quoted in The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U.S. Foreign Policy https://books.google.it/books?id=DNId6HxkzQwC&pg=PA247&dq=%22The+evils+of+capitalism+are+as+real+as+the+evils+of+militarism+and+evils+of+racism%22 (1968)

“We need a new form of capitalism, a contemporary form of capitalism. I would like to add “humanistic” to that equation.”

Brunello Cucinelli (1953) Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist
Jane Austen photo

“Evil to some is always good to others”

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

Karl Marx photo

“As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Vol. II, Ch. XX, p. 452.
(Buch II) (1893)

“Without need any longer of religious backing, capitalism may now have the power to shape people in its own image. Its conduct-forming spirit may be its own production. … Capitalism brings along with it, as part of its normal functioning, cultural forms affecting how subjects relate to themselves and to others. Capitalism has cultural concomitants—beliefs, values and norms—that help direct conduct—that get people to do willingly what capitalism requires of them—by encouraging them to see what they are doing and what they must do to get ahead as meaningful, valuable, or simply inevitable.”

Kathryn Tanner (1957) American theologian

"Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg6hztuaw2k&t=1002, Gifford Lecture, University of Edinburgh

Ayn Rand photo

“There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Denis Diderot photo

“Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.”

Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist

As quoted in Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (1980) by Mary Collison, Robert L. Collison, p. 98

Maimónides photo

“The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g., some of them use their strength against others.”

Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
Context: The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e. g., some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

Jean-Baptiste Say photo

“Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.”

Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman

Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book I, On Production, Chapter III, p. 73

Related topics