Capitalist Quote by Frances Fox Piven Download Open image “I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."” — Frances Fox Piven ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalist Dog Explaining Father Parenting Remember
“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. It indicates that the system has ceased to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I begin with the renaming of the system. It used to be capitalism. But that evokes [Karl] Marx and [John] Rockefeller. So now we… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“When the dogs returned, the Senator gave them treats from his pocket, and Jun Do understood that in communism, you'd threaten a dog into… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or another variant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with changing your mind if you think something's right at a certain moment. — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society. — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
I believe that the only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks. — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic? — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States is so… — Frances Fox Piven 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
