Joseph Schumpeter Quotes

… capitalism is being killed by its achievements.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The point is always made that capitalism is efficient, people say 'You might not like it, but it works.' But Britain is not efficient.

Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.

I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.

Globalism is a scheme for impoverishing First World labor and taking power and influence from the hands of the many and putting them in the hands of the few.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

It matters not one iota what political party is in power or what President holds the rein of office. We are not politicians, or public thinkers; we are the rich; we own America; we got it, God knows how, but we intend to keep it if we can by throwing all our tremendous weight of our support, our influence, our money, our political connections, our purchased Senators, our hungry Congressmen, and our public-speaking demagogues, into the scale against any legislation, any political platform, any Presidential campaign that threatens the integrity of our estate.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.