It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“MAGA dumbfucks are trailer park yokels with 6 teeth who support robber barons with 6 yachts.” — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“They worried that mindfulness would simply create better baby killers and robber barons.” — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals? — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
“The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“This is why tigers have ranges of hundreds of square kilometers," Vlad said. "Robber barons are not really very efficient.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons -… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Ultimately Rockefeller's confidence games proved wildly successful. At its height, his fortune outstripped those of all the other robber barons-even Carnegie's, by… — Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
The FTC was actually created more than a century ago, in the era of the robber barons and the industrial trust and… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
“If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent,… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
We're now seeing levels of inequality raise their heads that we haven't seen since the age of the robber barons. If somebody… — David Simon Copy Share Image
People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“[G]reater social equality can accompany, or parallel, shifts in economic distribution. In our case, they run at cross-purposes; in other countries, notably… — Michael S. Kimmel Copy Share Image
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Unlike religions that offered a better life after death, the idealist callings of anarchism espoused making heaven on earth by ridding humankind… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“But except for committed anarchists, the assassination attempt was widely condemned. In fact, it turned the tide of public opinion that, up… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“The American Constitution was carefully rigged by the noteholders, land speculators, rum runners, and slave holders who were the Founding Fathers, so… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“In the late 1800s a certain man taught Sunday school for over 20 years in a Baptist church; he eventually became the… — Michael D. Fortner Copy Share Image
“It would be easy to mistake Daley's tolerance of the Outfit for simple corruption. However, the more accurate assessment appears to be… — Gus Russo Copy Share Image
“• Reality is a curious thing. Truth is not as solid and universal as any of us would like it to be;… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Cornelius Vanderbilt and his fellow tycoon John D. Rockefeller were often called 'robber barons'. Newspapers said they were evil, and ran cartoons… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“The country, it seemed, was on the verge of a second civil war, this one over industrial slavery. But Frick was a… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“True choice requires that a person have the ability to choose an option and not be prevented from choosing it by any… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
When John Kennedy attempted to take the government back from the back from the robber barons, he was brutally murdered. The message… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
The scale of revenue growth is unprecedented. If you look back over history, whether you're looking at the railway robber baron era… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Kaldar almost never stops and thinks about the consequences of his actions. Something is fun or not fun, and my brother’s fun… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you… — Michael Shnayerson Copy Share Image
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