Capitalist Quotes

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The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage… — Edward Carpenter
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it… — David Graeber
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can… — John Grierson
While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes… — Chetan Bhagat
As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end. — Cees Nooteboom
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.… — Eric Hoffer
Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is. — Joyce Appleby
We werenâ€™t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. Itâ€™s open source and itâ€™s free. We werenâ€™t trying to take over the world; we had… — Blake Ross
Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets… — Glenn Beck
There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses. — Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Weâ€™re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. Weâ€™d rather shop than live, acquire… — Frank Schaeffer
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes… — Leon Jouhaux
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the… — Winona LaDuke
A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its… — Ivan Illich
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets. — George Osborne
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a… — Karl Marx
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. — Joel Salatin
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over… — Ayn Rand
We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in… — Nathaniel Branden

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