Capitalist Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government. — Karl Kautsky
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
The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails… — Ayn Rand
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
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
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
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
We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak â€¦ and we are resolved under… — Gregor Strasser
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
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. — Karl Marx
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
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
People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as â€˜parasitesâ€™ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by… — Unknown Author
The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. — Ludwig von Mises

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