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Quotes About Capitalists

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.
~ Hans F. Sennholz
Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.
~ Les Wexner
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
~ Walter Ulbricht
Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.
~ Bill Maris
And they're doing this without the knowledge or informed permission of the people whose lives they have colonized—and who are at present without means to escape the surveillance capitalists' web.
~ Rod Dreher
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
~ Abraham Lincoln
In contrast to the constitution-writing convention of 1787 in Philadelphia where there would be many delegates representative of the modern elites but none from the demos,23 at Putney the lower classes and the poor were present and democratic arguments were advanced. Those debates also saw the appearance of a new and self-conscious presence defending the political hegemony of nascent capitalists.24
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
The most important one was the belief, which went back to Lenin, that capitalists would never be able to cooperate with one another for very long. Their inherent greediness—the irresistible urge to place profits above politics—would sooner or later prevail, leaving communists with the need only for patience as they awaited their adversaries' self-destruction.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
In March 2019, immediately after the New Zealand attack, I tweeted that the shooter was "a socialist, environmentalist, who hates capitalists & free trade."63 I also wrote that the killer believed his attack would "lead to more gun control" in New Zealand and the United States. Twitter locked my account for two months so that I couldn't post anything or even read messages from other users.
~ John Lott
Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
~ Lech Walesa
Government does create prosperity and growth by creating the conditions that allow both entrepreneurs and their customers to thrive; balancing the power of capitalists like me and workers isn't bad for capitalism - it's essential to it.
~ Nick Hanauer
The difference between the Chinese workers and foreign workers lies in the fact that the latter are oppressed only by their own capitalists and not by those of other countries.
~ Sun Yat-sen
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
~ Scott Adams
Progressives regard government as the white knight that protects the public from the greed of capitalists. If only.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
Lottare per l'emancipazione integrale, aspettando e preparando il giorno in cui essa sarà possibile, strappare al governo ed ai capitalisti tutti quei miglioramenti politici ed economici che possono migliorare per noi le condizioni della lotta ed aumentare il numero di coloro che lottano coscientemente. E perciò strapparli con mezzi che non implichino il riconoscimento degli ordini attuali e preparino le vie dell'avvenire.
~ Errico Malatesta
Maggie cracked, "Quite the businesswoman, isn't she?" "Makes the capitalists back East look like rubes.
~ Beverly Jenkins
Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!
~ Richard Corliss
Your job is to find venture capitalists who make early bets on unproven startups.
~ Guy Kawasaki
Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.
~ H.W. Brands
Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore the nature of the human person against the avaricious dreams of the capitalists and the diabolical schemes of the national and international socialists, all of whom would replace God with man.
~ Bradley J. Birzer
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.
~ Sun Yat-sen
She laid her head in his lap. "It's all so depressing. Los Angeles' capitalists trying to desperately leverage this place as the center of Pacific Rim finance and kids going hungry and people sleeping in their cars. And where I had bricks thrown at my car because black people thought I was Korean.
~ Gary Phillips
IWW organizer Joseph Ettor said: If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. . . .
~ Howard Zinn
If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists….
~ Howard Zinn