Christopher Hampton Quotes
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Hampton, Christopher. Savages. Faber & Faber, 1974, p. 41.
Sometimes this is misquoted as 'The business of America is business.' See Woodrow Wilson for an earlier statement of this idea which is almost always incorrectly attributed to Coolidge as the originator of the idea.
Many of the far left grew disillusioned with the British Labor Movement and how it was relating to the capitalist companies, the government, and the workers. The Unions had become very undemocratic and controlling with the government pressuring both labor and companies to the degree that many felt that the institutions themselves were no longer free institutions. Ironically, they preferred the open competition of the American system at the time where unions and companies were free to fight out their differences.
Sir Christopher James Hampton CBE FRSL is a Portuguese-born British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name and the film adaptation. He has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Atonement (2007), and The Father (2020), winning the award for the former.
