Capitalist Quotes - Page 28

• The distance between capital and labor is not a great gulf over which is swung a Niagara suspension bridge; it is only a step, and the laborers here will cross over and become capitalists and the capitalists will cross over and become laborers. Would to God they would shake hands while they are crossing, these from one side, and those from the other side.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Distance, Hands, Bridges

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1886). “The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital”

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• Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

  Hannah Arendt

  Class, Expansion, Limits

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Benefits, Economy, Theory

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

  Muhammad Yunus

  Crisis

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• By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Order, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2014). “The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

  Kim Stanley

  Taken, Use, World

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• The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Insecure, Economic Inequality

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.150, Jester House Publishing

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• It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.

  George Blake

  Country, Kgb, High Standards

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• Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Organization, Community

  "Post-Capitalist Society". Book by Peter Drucker, www.wired.com. 1993.

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• Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Entrepreneur, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.

  Michael Moore

  Money, Believe, Giving

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• I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.

  Angela Davis

  Believe, Elude Us, Long

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• Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Rope, Sells

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• The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Boss, Economy

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure away the scarcity of capital goods, to lower the rate of interest or to abolish it altogether, to finance lavish government spending, to expropriate the capitalists, to contrive everlasting booms, and to make everybody prosperous.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Government, Hands

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.

  Neal Boortz

  Jobs, Skills, Greed

  Attributed to Neal Boortz in "Quotes, Jokes & Anecdotes", edited by Gerard O'Boyle, 2012.

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• If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Heart, Brain, Age

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• We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  War, Technology, Agriculture

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• The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

  Herbert Hoover

  Conservative, Trouble, Greedy

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Hands, Brain

  "Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production".

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• Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

  Bell Hooks

  White, Tools, Shame

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• Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Compassion, Effort

  William Ellery Channing (1849). “Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings”, p.68

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• A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

  Paul Johnson

  Animal, Capitalist Economy, Venture

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• The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Pigs, Blood, Sweat

  "The Nazi Party: A Complete History 1919-1945". Book by Dietrich Orlow, 2007.

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• He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Eye, Littles, Pay

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