Capitalist Quote by Karl Marx Download Open image “If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.” — Karl Marx ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalist Disposable Economics Ifs Labourers Time
When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations tomen; his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“within the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productiveness of labour are brought about at the cost of the individual labourer; all means for the development of production transform themselves into means of domination over, and exploitation of, the producers; they mutilate the labourer into a fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of an appendage… — Karl Marx Copy Share
No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend. — Michal Kalecki Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own… — Karl Marx Copy Share
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
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx 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. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share
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 - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share
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 in our time. Persistent economic stagnation together with neoliberal austerity has at this point seriously undermined the stability of the liberal-democratic state and thus the political command sector of the capitalist system. This has led to… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share
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 of scarcity, is a feeling of economic insecurity. Along with that is a feeling of deprivation... And unless we can demonstrate that that feeling is not justified technologically, we will not be able to speak intelligently… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share
... 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
