Capitalist Quotes

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In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain gray area. Though… — Sophia Amoruso
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism.… — Roger Lowenstein
In seventy years, Russiaâ€™s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists. — Roger Lowenstein
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. — Terry Eagleton
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists. — Ben Horowitz
The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society. — Manning Marable
The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. — Robert Nozick
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. — Ludwig von Mises
Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind… — Noam Chomsky
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain… — Karl Popper
The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think… — Warren Buffett
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served… — Michael Pollan
"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for… — Guy Kawasaki
They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it. — Wilbur Smith
A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students… — William Z. Foster
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious,… — William Graham Sumner
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the… — Karl Liebknecht
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid… — Unknown Author

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