29 quotes
“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.”
"The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world."
— Karl Marx
"Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck."
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
— Adam Smith
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."
— Lenin
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
— Margaret Thatcher
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money."
"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."
"The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,The more thieves and robbers."
— Lao Tzu
"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
"Machinery which is not used is not capital."
"The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws."
"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
— José Saramago
"There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich."
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation."
— Charles Baudelaire
"All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack."
— Aesop
"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."
"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."
"You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down."
— Abraham Lincoln
"From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure"
— Michel Foucault