A few famous quotes you should know of that define the true face of Capitalism

[Zalatix]

"Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor or they will never be industrious." - Arthur Young, 1771

"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." - Jay Gould

"Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilization. It is the lot of man. It is the source of wealth, since without poverty, there could be no labour; there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth." - Patrick Colquhoun

Please add on if you know of other equally telling quotes.

[KansDem]

1. "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes"

[Zalatix]

9. Oh damn, there's a classic one.

[KansDem]

2. John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is an astonishing belief that the wickedest of men will do the wickedest of things for the greater good.

One of my favorites!

[navarth]

4. That one is my all-time favorite. nt

[MicaelS]

3. "One more dollar." - Donald Trump...

When asked how much money was enough.

[PD Turk]

5. One from KV

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”

― Kurt Vonnegut

[PD Turk]

6. Cornel West

“In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.”

― Cornel West

[Nye Bevan]

7. "The worst economic system, except for all of the others" (nt)

[PD Turk]

8. Helen Keller

“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”

― Helen Keller