The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend. — Michal Kalecki Copy Share Image
The irony of capitalist discontent with democracy is that capitalist democracy has been a very good deal for capitalists. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. — Walter Ulbricht Copy Share Image
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me… — Giuseppe Zangara Copy Share Image
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“[Women need to realize that with] what they have in their hands there is no limit to what they could accomplish. The… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
It became obvious that we had completely failed to impose rules on unbridled speculative capitalism. That destroyed financial systems, hollowed out state… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I think it's hypocritical to complain about the rise of China. For 50 years, we were telling everybody in the world that… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians.… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“Like all other self-respecting peoples, we have no intention of paying our debts. Or, to be more nearly accurate, the capitalists who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“A kind of unspoken grand bargain was forged between the anti-Establishment and the Establishment. Going forward, individuals would be permitted as never… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The assault on education began more than a century ago by industrialists and capitalists such as Andrew Carnegie. In 1891, Carnegie congratulated… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberalism as espoused by, for instance, Charles Comte and Charles… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“In the old days [it ran], before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today. It was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image