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The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. — David Korten

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy. — Glenn Beck

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse? — A.E. Samaan

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman. — Johan Norberg

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad — Smedley Butler

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. — Ellen Willis

The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women's shame. — Laurie Penny

Fair enough." I managed a nod. "Still, you shouldn't be up here." "It's a free country." "It's a capitalist country and this is private property. — Andrea Cremer

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country. — Timothy Noah

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well. — Bernie Sanders

Away with the hypocritical horror on the part of capitalist, labor leader, and politician. — Alexander Berkman

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state. — Bela Lugosi

I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself. — Robert Kiyosaki

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

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing."
"You mean you went to an expensive school? — Ian Rankin

When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine. — Terence Conran

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. — Vladimir Lenin

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government. — Karl Kautsky

But business in a crony-capitalist society is the craft of sharks. — Pierce Brown

The windmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill, society with the industrial capitalist — Karl Marx

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation. — Karl Marx

In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen . . . "The — John Le Carre

The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything's on its head, it's a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction ... — Thomas Pynchon

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. — Karl Marx

The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations — Kevin Carson

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit. — Felix Rohatyn

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism. — David Harvey

Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their assets and to their investments........ — Tarif Naaz

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all. — Joan Robinson

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor. — Alan Patricof

Good God, is the man a heathen?'

'Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture. — Melanie Jackson

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived. — Noam Chomsky

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything. — Nikita Khrushchev

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions. — Frans De Waal

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important - if not the most important - phenomena of modern capitalist economy, — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker — Malcolm X

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America. — Monica Crowley

If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system. — Evo Morales

I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it. — John Caudwell

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production. — Herbert Marcuse

Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce. — Karl Marx

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer. — Karl Marx

A free state is a corporate state. — Marie Lu

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist. — David Marusek

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. — Jawaharlal Nehru

It was heartbreaking to see old Ossis trying to ape the thinking of Wessis, trying to master the lingo of capitalist self-promotion. — Jonathan Franzen

Just because I'm a capitalist doesn't mean I'm a black-hearted bastard. — Ransom Riggs

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses. — Cristina Kirchner

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. — Arsene Wenger

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. — Christopher Dawson

Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with. — Vladimir Lenin

We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets. — Eugene V. Debs

It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention. — Tim Wu

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is. — Joyce Appleby

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. — Milton Friedman

Worried capitalist is like a comet: he always presages some disaster for the world. — Alexandre Dumas

Euro-American colonialism, an aspect of the capitalist economic globalization, had from its beginnings a genocidal tendency. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. — Benjamin Disraeli

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

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. — Eric Hobsbawm

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people. — Gregor Strasser

Only capitalists get photographers. — Stephen Sondheim

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker. — Karl Marx

Golf is typical capitalist luncay. — George Bernard Shaw

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while. — Luke Nosek

Every far-sighted capitalist today must call on his fellows: capitalists of all countries, unite ! — Anonymous

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers. — Ella R. Bloor

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted. — James Cook

A true capitalist doesn't have a job, because other people and other people's money work for them. — Robert Kiyosaki

My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.' — Patrice Motsepe

In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably. — Nayef Al-Rodhan

You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it, — Bell Hooks

Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud. — Edmund Phelps

The Internet of Things is not a capitalist marketplace. It's a new platform for radically broadening digital activity. — Bruce Sterling

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them. — John Currin

The way to make the giving a free vote safe for a totalitarian capitalist regime is simple - make all political parties the same! — Dave Mearns

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work. — Ha-Joon Chang

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy. — David Korten

One capitalist always kills many. — Karl Marx

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times. — Noam Chomsky

The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal. — Bill Haywood

It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you. — Joan Robinson

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing. — Richard Rainwater

The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend. — Michal Kalecki

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class. — David Harvey

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money. — Chuck Palahniuk

Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system. — Mal Fletcher

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. — Karl Marx

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production — Ludwig Von Mises

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. — Karl Marx

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

Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure. — Louis O. Kelso

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand. — Karl Marx

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? — Bell Hooks

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action. — Mark Zuckerberg

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope. — Karl Marx