Capitalist Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “Communists are frustrated capitalists.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalist Communism Communist Economics Frustrated
We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer 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
