Doyle Sir Arthur Conan 1859-1930

A Study in Scarlet
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all
the evidence. It biases the Judgement.

Marley Bob 1945-1981

‘I Shot the Sheriff'
I shot the sheriff
But I swear it was in self-defence
I shot the sheriff
And they say it is a capital offence.

Martindell Jackson

Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost
... Pandemonium, the high capital
Of Satan and his peers.

Scott Howard

A criminal is person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822

Adonais
To that high Capital, where kingly Death
Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay,
He came.

Bowman Louis Nelson

Another thing about capitalism - everybody knows who's in Grant's tomb.

Castro Fidel

I am not a great fan of capitalism. But I am a realist.

Friedman Milton

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?
The problem of social organization is how to set
up an arrangement under which greed will do the
least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.

Hampton Christopher

Savages
A definition of capitalism ... the process whereby American
girls turn into American women.

Heath Edward 1916-
(on the Lonrho affair)
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

Lenin 1870-1924

Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Stoppard Tom

Travesties
War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know
it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

Weber Max 1864-1920
Archiv für Socialwissenschaft..
The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

Khrushchev Nikita 1894-1971

About the capitalist States, it doesn't depend on you whether or not
we exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations and don't
invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on
our side. We will bury you.

Macmillan Sir Harold 1894-1986

(of Aneurin Bevan)
He enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system and
is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

Nehru Jawaharlal 1889-1964

‘Basic Approach'
Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of a capitalist
society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the
poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.
Paz Octavio 1914-
Our democratic capitalist society has converted
Eros into an employee of Mammon.

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