Capitalist Quote by Eric Hobsbawm Download Open image “Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.” — Eric Hobsbawm ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalist Human beings Humans Inspirational Love Productions
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. — Walter Ulbricht Copy Share Image
We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is also incapable of promoting sustainable development, not because it encourages technological advances that are capable of straining the earth's resources but because… — Ellen Meiksins Wood Copy Share Image
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though curiously legalistic… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed. — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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