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  • Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity. -- Steig Larsson
  • I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists. -- Tom Metzger
  • Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. -- Vladimir Ilich Lenin
  • Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. -- James Cook
  • Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences. -- David Harvey
  • A lady is the last thing on earth I want to be. Capitalists sidetrack the women into clubs and make ladies of them. -- Mother Jones
  • Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future. -- Aldous Huxley
  • Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas. -- George Gilder
  • The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you. -- Glenn Beck
  • 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
  • Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.' -- Clayton Christensen
  • Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?""Capitalists," said Anna. -- Eleanor Arnason
  • Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?""Capitalists," said Anna." -- Eleanor Arnason
  • Capitalists control the machineries. They create difficulties to the workers. Consequently rationalism , which has to lead the way for peaceful life to all, has resulted in causing poverty and worries to the people because of dominating forces -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
  • Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is reasonable. And by the fact that they bring capital into these countries, they bring about a trend toward higher wage rates. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists -- John Ruskin
  • Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore. -- Lech Walesa
  • Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon. -- Adam Osborne
  • It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. -- Samuel Gompers
  • When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. -- Joseph Stalin
  • Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. -- Guy Kawasaki
  • In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. -- Larry Niven
  • Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. -- Karl Marx
  • American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. -- Clayton M. Christensen
  • What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women. -- Clara Zetkin
  • Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. -- Vinton Cerf
  • If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out. -- Shimon Peres
  • 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
  • Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups. -- Elon Musk
  • Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire. -- Leland Stanford
  • The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible. -- Clara Zetkin
  • The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires! -- Wilbur Smith
  • If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous. -- Alex Tabarrok
  • The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. -- Daniel Ortega
  • During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists. -- Steven Rattner
  • That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor. -- Michael Arrington
  • Only capitalists get photographers. -- Stephen Sondheim
  • Communists are frustrated capitalists. -- Eric Hoffer
  • The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists. -- Herbert Hoover
  • I will not descend among professors and capitalists. -- Walt Whitman
  • I kill kings and presidents first, and next all capitalists. -- Giuseppe Zangara
  • The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy. -- Herbert Hoover
  • These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us. -- Karl Marx
  • The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend. -- Michal Kalecki
  • The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'. -- John Doerr
  • Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists. -- Tyler Cowen
  • Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy. -- Herbert Hoover
  • There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism. -- David Harvey
  • All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more. -- Ed Asner
  • At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people? -- Frank Schaeffer
  • There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so. -- Thomas Piketty
  • They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it. -- Wilbur Smith
  • The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all. -- Joan Robinson
  • The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. -- Walter Ulbricht
  • We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. -- Leonid Brezhnev
  • Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world. -- Jose Ferreira
  • In seventy years, Russia's Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists. -- Roger Lowenstein
  • A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else. -- David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists? -- Alexis de Tocqueville
  • 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
  • What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists. -- Ben Horowitz
  • What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. -- Raymond Williams
  • Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class. -- David Harvey
  • When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats... -- T.H. White
  • 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
  • Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent. -- Agnes Smedley
  • Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe. -- Jose Ferreira
  • The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees. -- Eduard Bernstein
  • Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • 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
  • The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself." -- G.K. Chesterton
  • The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction. -- Richard D. Wolff
  • You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care! -- Giuseppe Zangara
  • 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
  • I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists. -- Giuseppe Zangara
  • I don't agree with the Black Lives Matter organizers. They are stated as anti-capitalists. And it's much more than just the police to them. It's about changing society entirely. -- Glenn Beck
  • There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed over to capitalists. -- Donald Rooum
  • On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people. -- Lawrence Reed
  • First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. -- Vinton Cerf
  • Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world. -- Cyril Connolly
  • In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism. -- Frank Chodorov
  • We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other. -- Joseph Stalin
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the major state capitalists economies, Europe and the US, it's low growth and stagnation and a very sharp income differentiation a shift - a striking shift - from production to financialization. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I 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 rebelled long ago!. -- Anne Frank
  • An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. -- Albert Einstein
  • The Hollywood executives are, like, 'We're not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we're capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don't like Kevin Hart. -- Bill Maher
  • What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things. -- Jose Ferreira
  • Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen. -- Jerry Rubin
  • 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
  • People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists. -- Gurbaksh Chahal
  • In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists. -- Barney Frank
  • It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself. -- James C. Scott
  • The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
  • The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people. -- Wilhelm Reich
  • At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch. -- Ben Thompson
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