Imelda Marcos Quotes

Property is organized robbery.

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

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.

I spent 33 years ... most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short I was a racketeer for capitalism.

The exclusive owners of property ever have been, ever will, and perhaps ever ought to be the virtual rulers of mankind

Out of this modern civilization, economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

The wealthiest in this country have never had it so good. They want more, and more, and more, and more, and they don’t care how many children they have to step on to get it..

Throughout our history - and that of the world - it's always come down to the friction between the haves and have-nots or between the average Joes and the large corporations. So that's a recurring theme in my work.

This dear bought Land with so much blood and cost, hath only made some few rich, and all the rest losers.

It is said that our indigenous ancestors, Mayas and Aztecs, made human sacrifices to their gods. It occurs to me to ask: How many humans have been sacrificed to the gods of Capital in the last five hundred years?

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

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

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

Corporations are the new dictators.