Bell Hooks
Author, Feminist, Social Activist
"You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it."
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Capitalist
54 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction..."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated."
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"We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters."
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"If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist."
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"One capitalist always kills many."
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"Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce."
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"I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge."
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"Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore."
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"That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist."
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"At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists."
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"But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation."
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"The crisis is the price for the capitalist system"
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"I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself."
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"Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine."
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"Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is."
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"In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary."
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"I will not descend among professors and capitalists."
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"Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian."
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"So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer."
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"Golf is typical capitalist luncay."
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