--- title: "8 Private Profit Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Private Profit quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Private Profit sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/carl-l-becker-39131_abuse_no-one-can-deny-that-much-of-our-modern_1125010.jpg" --- > [No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-l-becker/no-one-can-deny-that-much-of-our-modern-advertising-is-essentially/) [Carl L. Becker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-l-becker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51a/carl-l-becker-39131_abuse_no-one-can-deny-that-much-of-our-modern_1125010.jpg) > [ ...free enterprise, \[is\] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/free-enterprise-is-a-term-that-refers-in-practice-to-a-system-of/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93e/noam-chomsky-42_business_free-enterprise-is-a-term-that-refers-in_1769871.jpg) > [For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-wright-mills/for-the-corporation-executives-the-military-metaphysic-often/) [C. Wright Mills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-wright-mills/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05f/c-wright-mills-9475_capitalism_for-the-corporation-executives-the-milit_1993935.jpg) > [We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-fonda/we-ve-got-to-establish-a-socialistic-economic-structure-that-will/) [Jane Fonda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-fonda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e22/jane-fonda-1041_business_we-ve-got-to-establish-a-socialistic-eco_2096628.jpg) > [If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baptiste-say/if-one-individual-or-one-class-can-call-in-the-aid-of-authority-to/) [Jean-Baptiste Say](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baptiste-say/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06b/jean-baptiste-say-9216_acquire_if-one-individual-or-one-class-can-call_2143829.jpg) > [We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-are-being-made-aware-that-the-organization-of-society-on-the/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b44/anonymous-1_consumerism_we-are-being-made-aware-that-the-organiz_2270630.jpg) > [We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-d-roosevelt/we-count-in-the-future-as-in-the-past-on-the-driving-power-of/) [Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-d-roosevelt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1b/franklin-d-roosevelt-488_acceptance_we-count-in-the-future-as-in-the-past-on_2390880.jpg) > [Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/where-no-man-thinks-himself-under-any-obligation-to-submit-to-another/) [Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2f/samuel-johnson-50_become-rich_where-no-man-thinks-himself-under-any-ob_2617519.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/private-profit/#itemlist", "name": "Private Profit Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. 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