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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“Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“Woman—with a capital letter—should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of “movements” on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and development ... than for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.”
—Marion Harland (1830–1922)
“The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)