“There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.”
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Karl Marx
6 quotes“The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws...”
Adam Smith
4 quotes“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard...”
Margaret Thatcher
3 quotes“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Aesop
1 quote“All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.”
Booker T. Washington
1 quote“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race econom...”
Charles Baudelaire
1 quote“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
Montesquieu
1 quote“Peace is a natural effect of trade.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1 quote“There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.”
Frank Zappa
1 quote“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
Herbert Hoover
1 quote“About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
José Saramago
1 quote“It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic pow...”
Lao Tzu
1 quote“The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and...”