Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

The main features and requirements of the basic economic law of modern capitalism might be formulated roughly, in this way: the securing of the maximum capitalist profit through the exploitation, ruin and impoverishment of the majority of the population of the given country, through the enslavement and systematic robbery of the peoples of other countries, especially backward countries, and, lastly, through wars and militarization of the national economy, which are utilized for the obtaining of the highest profits.

Different from a great part of the world, we in America persist in our belief in individual enterprise and in the profit motive.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.