Capitalist Quotes
381 quotes by 247 authors
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While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not because of sentimental…
— Unknown Author
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and…
— George Orwell
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If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad
— Smedley Butler
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It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find…
— Joan Robinson
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Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure…
— Cyril Connolly
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Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and…
— Unknown Author
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The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.
— Karl Kautsky
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What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. The capitalists speculate…
— Clara Zetkin
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The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails…
— Ayn Rand
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All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly…
— Ronald Reagan
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Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits,…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately,…
— Zeena Schreck
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The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its unethical way of…
— Gregor Strasser
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We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak … and we are resolved under…
— Gregor Strasser
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The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary,…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
— Karl Marx
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If surface water can be compared with interest income, and non-renewable groundwater with capital, then much of the West was living mainly on interest income.…
— Marc Reisner
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Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private…
— Murray Rothbard
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People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by…
— Unknown Author
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
— Ludwig von Mises
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