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“A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.”

People Country Wisdom Politics Company Economy Five Share Figures Percent Scales Income Liberalism Capitalist Equity Ninety Discouraging

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.”

Knows Doe Wisdom Humanity Universe Politics Economy Planets Percent Nine Liberalism Ninety Ninety Nine

Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path

“We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.”

Ifs Care Three Politics Economy Four Percent Increase Take Care Liberalism Accomplished Twelve Efficiency Folds Redesign

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.”

Source: Left at the post

“Kelso's proposals do promise to free us from our morbid dependency on economic health through armament manufacture; they promise a way out of the welfare mess, out of foodstamps and ship subsidies, out of perpetual inflation, and they suggest a means of doing these things without being too disruptive of the wealth of five percent of the population who own the rest of us.”

“If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.”

Ifs States Wisdom Form Politics United Half United States Economy Return Percent Income Liberalism Capitalist Household Consumption Annuals

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.”

“Fifty percent of Winston is genius, fifty percent bloody fool. He will behave like a child.”

Children Political Politics Fool Genius Percent Behave Fifty Bloody

Author:Clement Attlee

“From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.”

People Spiritual Politics Leadership Moral Planets Adventure Office Percent Guides Administration Presidential Spiritual Leadership Greatest Adventure

Author:William Allen White

“But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts America Political Politics Challenges Wealth Risk Land Percent Serving Rebel Serving Others

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.”

Two Important Country States Politics United United States Percent Capacity Western Statements Japan Allies Two Countries

Author:Dan Quayle

“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

Two Country Political Politics Work Honest Honesty Percent Adults Drinking Eight Libertarian Decent Libertarianism Ninety Publicity Hardworking Funny 4th Of July Ninety Eight

Author:Lily Tomlin

“Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.”

People Political Politics Percent Vote Newspapers Fifty

Author:Gore Vidal

“Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”

Humans Wells Doe Care Faces Politics Enjoy Percent Western Health Care Literacy Human Faces Stomping

Author:John Derbyshire