Quotes About Robber Barons

#1. When the court is arrayed in splendor, The fields are full of weeds, And the granaries are empty. Some wear gorgeous clothes, Carry sharp swords, And indulge in food and drink; They have more possessions than they can use. They are robber barons. This is certainly not the way of Tao.

Lao-Tzu

#2. The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't want to put restraints on "robber barons"-he might become one one day!

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

Clare Short

#4. I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#5. My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

David Mamet

#6. In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers ... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#7. It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

Carl Sagan

#9. In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

Michael Shnayerson

#10. I steal from the rich to give to myself.

Robert Thier

#11. I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

Kathleen Turner

#12. I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Jean Racine

#13. I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.

Joyce Meyer

#14. One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.

Elia Kazan

#15. In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

Philippe Claudel

#16. To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

Mencius

#17. Children are our greatest natural resource.

Herbert Hoover

#18. There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

Albert Camus

#19. Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

Mencius

#20. Olgun! Wake up!"
Her mind was filled with a sense of self-righteous and
vaguely drowsy protest.
"Sure you weren't, she needled at him. You were just
practicing snoring, so you'd be sure to get it right later on,
yes?"
Olgun's response very strongly resembled an indignant
snort.

Ari Marmell

#21. You persist in playing the role of a spoiled, petulant debutante without the wit to realize your every action has a consequence.

Marsha Canham

#22. Please use your liberty to promote ours

Aung San Suu Kyi

#23. It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

Frank Herbert

#24. Good God, is the man a heathen?'

'Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.

Melanie Jackson