Conditions Quote by Clare Short

People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the…

— Charlie Munger

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count…

— Michael Shnayerson

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

— C. S. Lewis

I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I…

— Simon Rich

The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of the rest…

— Ben Fountain

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live…

— C. S. Lewis

“This is why tigers have ranges of hundreds of square kilometers," Vlad said. "Robber barons are not really very efficient.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has…

— Joseph Sobran

“It would be easy to mistake Daley's tolerance of the Outfit for simple corruption. However, the more accurate assessment appears to be that Daley…

— Gus Russo

The FTC was actually created more than a century ago, in the era of the robber barons and the industrial trust and Standard Oil,…

— Lina Khan

“MAGA dumbfucks are trailer park yokels with 6 teeth who support robber barons with 6 yachts.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan