Thu Oct 11, 2012, 01:33 PM

Zalatix (8,994 posts)

A few famous quotes you should know of that define the true face of Capitalism

"Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor or they will never be industrious." - Arthur Young, 1771

"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." - Jay Gould

"Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilization. It is the lot of man. It is the source of wealth, since without poverty, there could be no labour; there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth." - Patrick Colquhoun

Please add on if you know of other equally telling quotes.

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A few famous quotes you should know of that define the true face of Capitalism (Original post)	Zalatix	Oct 2012	OP
"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes"	KansDem	Oct 2012	#1
Oh damn, there's a classic one.	Zalatix	Oct 2012	#9
John Maynard Keynes	KansDem	Oct 2012	#2
That one is my all-time favorite. nt	navarth	Oct 2012	#4
"One more dollar." - Donald Trump...	MicaelS	Oct 2012	#3
One from KV	PD Turk	Oct 2012	#5
Cornel West	PD Turk	Oct 2012	#6
"The worst economic system, except for all of the others" (nt)	Nye Bevan	Oct 2012	#7
Helen Keller	PD Turk	Oct 2012	#8

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Thu Oct 11, 2012, 01:37 PM

KansDem (28,498 posts)

1. "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes"

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Thu Oct 11, 2012, 04:11 PM

Zalatix (8,994 posts)

9. Oh damn, there's a classic one.

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Thu Oct 11, 2012, 01:40 PM

KansDem (28,498 posts)

2. John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is an astonishing belief that the wickedest of men will do the wickedest of things for the greater good.

One of my favorites!

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Thu Oct 11, 2012, 02:06 PM

navarth (5,927 posts)

4. That one is my all-time favorite. nt

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Thu Oct 11, 2012, 01:42 PM

MicaelS (8,742 posts)

3. "One more dollar." - Donald Trump...

When asked how much money was enough.

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Thu Oct 11, 2012, 02:10 PM

PD Turk (1,289 posts)

5. One from KV

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

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Thu Oct 11, 2012, 02:13 PM

PD Turk (1,289 posts)

6. Cornel West

“In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.”

― Cornel West

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Thu Oct 11, 2012, 02:15 PM

Nye Bevan (25,406 posts)

7. "The worst economic system, except for all of the others" (nt)

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Thu Oct 11, 2012, 02:18 PM

PD Turk (1,289 posts)

8. Helen Keller

“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”

― Helen Keller

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