Capitalist Quote by Karl Marx Download Open image “While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.” — Karl Marx ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalist Gone Mad Rational
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce.… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
While the people are drowning in debt, the capitalists are drowning in profits that they've expropriated from the masses. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite — Eastern Europe Proverb Copy Share Image
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must… — Daniel De Leon 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… — Karl Marx 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
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.… — 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
