Merle Haggard Quotes

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

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.

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 selfish spirit of commerce which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

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

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.

It all boils down to power and money.

Thousands of capitalist have been enriched by inventions and discoveries of which they were not the authors, and capital, by robbing the inventor of his just reward, is guilty of stifling genius.

Amassing huge profits, sometimes at the deficit of human welfare, is the motivating factor of western capitalism.

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.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.