Capital

Capital may refer to:

  • Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government
  • Capital (economics), a factor of production that is not wanted for itself but for its ability to help in producing other goods
  • Capital (architecture), the crowning member of a column or a pilaster
  • Capital letter, an upper-case letter in a writing system

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Famous quotes containing the word capital:

    “In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “Oh, a capital ship for an ocean trip,
    Was the Walloping Window Blind;
    No gale that blew dismayed her crew
    Or troubled the captain’s mind.”
    —Charles Edward Carryl (1841–1920)

    “That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)