Capitalist Class Quotes

#1. The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

Rosa Luxemburg

#2. There is no economic necessity for continuing the arms race after the World War, even from the standpoint of the capitalist class itself, with the exception of at most certain armaments interests.

Anonymous

#3. The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

Daniel De Leon

#4. The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

Ella R. Bloor

#5. The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established by moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it.

Jack London

#6. Oh, I am not challenging your sincerity," Ernest continued. "You are sincere. You preach what you believe. There lies your strength and your value - to the capitalist class.

Jack London

#7. The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Karl Kautsky

#8. Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

David Harvey

#9. But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. U.S. national security, as preached by U.S. leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people.

Philip Agee

#10. Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

James Connolly

#11. Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed.

David Harvey

#12. If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.

Bill Haywood

#13. In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

Noam Chomsky

#14. The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#15. It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.

Karl Marx

#16. Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

Frank Herbert

#17. Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy 'til we see the sun. I know we only met but lets pretend its love. And never, never, never stop for anyone. Tonight lets get some and live when we're young!

One Direction

#18. Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

Fidel Castro

#19. In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

Karl Marx

#20. In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

Karl Liebknecht

#21. Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

Daniel De Leon

#22. Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

Bell Hooks

#23. No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

E.W. Howe

#24. No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.

Kim Jong Il

#25. In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.

Sally Wentworth

#26. High school doesn't end after high school.

Maggie Young

#27. Lightning only strikes once," my dad said. "And when it hits, you know.

Sarah Mlynowski

#28. I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

Paloma Faith

#29. Yes, I know, I'm only an artist. What would I know about the dark side of Baghdad?

Leslie Cockburn

#30. Jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

Anais Nin

#31. If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.

Terry Eagleton

#32. People talk of "class selfishness". Well, I know something of history, and I never heard of any tyrant, aristocrat, capitalist, slave-holder, buccaneer, middle-class shopkeeper - so absolutely and exclusively governed by selfishness as Trades Union "labour".

George Saintsbury

#33. The formula for the circuit of capital: M-C...P...C'-M', is the self-evident form of the circuit of capital only on the basis of already developed capitalist production, because it presupposes the availability of the class of wage-labourers in sufficient numbers throughout society.

Karl Marx

#34. People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as 'parasites' fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.

Jason Read

#35. As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

John Lennon

#36. Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.

Bill Dedman

#37. Women who drove like badasses, threw punches without hesitation, and filled out a pair of jeans while they did it were my ultimate type. Sexy.

Cambria Hebert

#38. I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.

Margaret Hughes

#39. A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.

Nick Hanauer

#40. The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Clara Zetkin

#41. In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.

John Lennon

#42. American love - like coke in green glass bottles ... they don't make it anymore.

Alan Moore