Capitalist Quotes - Page 27

• The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, United States, Masters

  Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.42, eKitap Projesi

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• I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook wouls be fundamentally changed . The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy arguement suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white,not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.

  Michael Collins

  Distance, Rich Or Poor, Blue

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• I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

  Alec Baldwin

  Zero, Government, Slave Labor

  Source: www.npr.org

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• America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

  Alice Walker

  America, Leader, Matter

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• When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it and make money from it?"

  Ian Svenonius

  Thinking, Rivers, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• I myself was and still am a child of the people.  It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Struggle, Men

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• If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

  Peter Drucker

  Knights, Age, Embodiment

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• The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain.

  Helen Keller

  War, Sacrifice, Faces

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• I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Matter, Problem

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Agreement, Ideas, Movement

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• The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Attitude, Real

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

  Helen Keller

  Army, Want, Profit

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Real, Years, Today

  "Yvon Chouinard on Entrepreneurship". Interview with Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2008.

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• Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Kings, Soldier, Atheism

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• in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

  Nora Ephron

  Country, Socialist Countries, Luxury

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.171, Vintage

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• don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!

  Anne Frank

  War, Believe, Cutting

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• I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Believe, Mean, People

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

  Bobby Seale

  Political, Needs, Economic

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• What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.

  Jack Zipes

  Religious, Children, Educational

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• Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

  Robert Gilpin

  World, Arguing, Economy

  "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.

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• You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

  Alan Greenspan

  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, World, Cold

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• No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.

  Harvey Mackay

  Determination, Opportunity, Service Culture

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.

  Rose Pastor Stokes

  War, Believe, Democracy

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