Capitalist Quotes
381 quotes by 247 authors
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The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question…
— James Connolly
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If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic…
— James Connolly
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Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
— Alan Patricof
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People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a…
— Gurbaksh Chahal
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be…
— David Harvey
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City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me…
— Leon Trotsky
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Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
— Eric Hobsbawm
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The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.
— Joan Robinson
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In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special…
— Frank Chodorov
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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The…
— David Graeber
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Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It…
— Karl Hess
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Economists have provided capitalists with a comforting concept called the "free market." It does not describe any part of reality, at any place or time.…
— Edward S. Herman
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The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war . . . by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation…
— Norman Angell
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The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a…
— Eduard Bernstein
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If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike - economic growth…
— Susannah York
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The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.
— Gregor Strasser
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In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the…
— David Stockman
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