Thomas Hodgskin Quotes

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists—they're too greedy.

Hirelings of monopoly

One capitalist always kills many.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

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.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

Capitalism carries in itself war, like clouds carry rain.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

“Capital” is a sort of cabalistic word, like “Church” or “State,” or any other of those general terms which are invented by those who fleece the rest of mankind to conceal the hand that shears them.

Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable

This is mine; this is mine. I run it, I own it, and I created it. And nobody is going to make any money out of it except me.

There’s a lot of money to be made in unfairness.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

In a way, I think the whole business is pretty corrupt. It's like anything else where people make a lot of money - it's really hard for the little guy.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.