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Capital is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx1818–1883Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 10, Section 1, p. 257.
- Economics
- Work
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.
Karl Marx1818–1883Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 13, pg. 363.
- Economics
The product of mental labor — science — always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl Marx1818–1883Addenda, “Relative and Absolute Surplus Value” in Economic Manuscripts (1861-63)
- Economics
- Science
Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong1893–1976Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 5, originally published in Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
- Guns
- Power
Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.
Mao Zedong1893–1976“在延安各界庆祝斯大林六十寿辰大会上的讲话” (“Speech marking the 60th birthday of Stalin”) (20 December 1939), later revised as “It is right to rebel against reactionaries.”
We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Speech at Progressive Party Convention, Chicago (17 June 1912)
That’s the basis of all politics: it has to be you or me, there’s not enough for both of us. Survival of the fittest.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
The young world is giving up any interest in their political system. They have decided that it is absolutely corrupt.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.
George W. Bushborn 1946Speaking to FEMA head Michael D. Brown, following Hurrican Katrina at Mobile Regional Airport in Mobile, Alabama. — September 2, 2005.
Economics is on the side of humanity now.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 18 “The Victors” (p. 185)
- Economics
Men did not make the earth… It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property… Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Agrarian Justice (1797), Agrarian Justice
- Economics
We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1982
- Economics
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini’s success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say “But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.”
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Time (17 May 1976)
- Economics
- Government
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (14 June 1956)
- Poetry
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Speech (2 April 1824); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), volume iii, page 141
- Economics
- Work