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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919The New Nationalism (1910)
- Business
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778The Social Contract (1762), Book III, Chapter XVIn context
- Government
- Responsibility
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Unarmed Victory (1963), p. 14
- Economics
The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920), Part I, The Present Condition of Russia, Ch. 1: What Is Hoped From Bolshevism
- Anti-Religion
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 13: Freedom in Society
- Economics
- Liberty
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre1905–1980“On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,” Libération (22 June 1953)
It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.
ESE. F. Schumacher1911–1977Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), p. 36.
- Economics
- War & Peace
My political ambitions have nothing to do with vanity or the desire for power. I want to help people. I owe them something after all they’ve done for me.
Arnold Schwarzeneggerborn 1947
I would rather be governor of California than own Austria.
Arnold Schwarzeneggerborn 1947
When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.
Arnold Schwarzeneggerborn 1947Speech at the Republican National Convention (31 August 2004)
- Comedy
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.
William H. Seward1801–1872On the Irrepressible Conflict (1858)
- Virtue
What is the city but the people?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Coriolanus (c. 1608), Act III, Scene I, spoken by SiciniusIn context
- Democracy
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
- Economics
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Major Barbara (1905)
- Clever Jabs
I, who said forty years ago that we should have had Socialism already but for the Socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928)
- Clever Jabs