#capitalist

Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#capitalist #literature #state #subversive #art

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

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalist #capitalist society #class #fights #hand

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#earn #everyone #few #goods #guiding

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. ↗

— James Tobin

#causes #depression #disasters #economies #failures

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#approach #better #capitalist #century #challenges

Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#ages #between #capitalist #children #company

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning. ↗

— John Grierson

#capitalist #central #entering #function #individual

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#areas #burned #business #business sense #capitalists

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#hang #him #illustration #impressive #lenin

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat! ↗

— Harry Pollitt

#capitalists #comradeship #country #defeat #effort