Capitalist Quotes

381 Capitalist quotes by 247 unique authors

Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons. — William H. Gates, Sr.
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political… — Eugene V. Debs
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. — Walter Ulbricht
Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization… — Evo Morales
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach… — Dorothy Day
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and… — Vladimir Lenin
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates… — Karl Marx
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker. — Karl Marx
Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot… — E L Doctorow
Under communism, prices were not allowed to reflect economic reality. Under capitalism, prices don't reflect ecological reality. In the long run, the capitalist flaw --… — Denis Hayes
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought.… — A J P Taylor
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention,… — Mary McCarthy
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. — Camille Paglia
The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger… — Gary North
But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all,… — David Graeber
I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I… — Fabian Perez
Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman. — Johan Norberg
Communists are frustrated capitalists. — Eric Hoffer
I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty,… — Anne Frank
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must… — Clara Zetkin

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