Capitalist Quotes - Page 27

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

  Vladimir Lenin

  Rope, Sells

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

  Bobby Seale

  Political, Needs, Economic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Real, Principles, Answers

  "Free Press doesn’t mean Free Lunch" by Rick Carnes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

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• But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Phones, Media, Goal

  "Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles – An interview with Robert McChesney". Interview with Tanner Mirrlees, www.socialistproject.ca. August 9, 2009.

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• I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Believe, Profit, I Believe

  "Felix Rohatyn’s ‘Dealings’" by Robert Teitelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?

  Emma Goldman

  Thinking, Circles, Two

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