Capitalist Quotes
381 quotes by 247 authors
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Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills…
— Neal Boortz
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If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
— Ella Reeve Bloor
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We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.
— Leonid Brezhnev
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The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy.
— Herbert Hoover
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Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of…
— Karl Marx
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Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
— Bell Hooks
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Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.
— Vladimir Lenin
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I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a…
— Angela Davis
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The crisis is the price for the capitalist system
— Muhammad Yunus
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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class…
— Friedrich Engels
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In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor…
— Kim Stanley
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The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same…
— George Orwell
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It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in…
— George Blake
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Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization…
— Peter Drucker
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What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
— Raymond Williams
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per…
— Agnes Smedley
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Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market…
— George Soros
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Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who…
— Mao Zedong
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