Robber Baron Quotes

• De todas las tiranías, la que se ejerce sinceramente por el bien de sus víctimas puede ser la más opresiva. Sería mejor vivir bajo los barones ladrones que bajo omnipotentes entrometidos morales. La crueldad del barón ladrón puede dormir a veces, su codicia puede saciarse en algún momento; pero los que nos atormentan por nuestro propio bien nos atormentarán sin fin porque lo hacen con la aprobación de su propia conciencia.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sabiduría, Religión, Libertad

  "La teoría humanitaria del castigo". "Dios en el banquillo de los acusados". Libro de C. S. Lewis, 1970.

  328 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Las personas incapaces de motivarse a sí mismas deben contentarse con la mediocridad, por muy impresionantes que sean sus otros talentos.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Motivación, Éxito, Perseverancia

  76 Copiar cita

• Puede que sea mejor vivir bajo barones ladrones que bajo omnipotentes entrometidos morales.

  C. S. Lewis

  Libertarian Party, Democracies Have, Government

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  63 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

  Jay Gould

  Class, Political, Half

  55 Copiar cita

• No quites de la boca del trabajador el pan que se ha ganado.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Libertad, Partido Libertario, Las democracias tienen

  34 Copiar cita

• Los que nos atormentan por nuestro propio bien nos atormentarán sin fin, pues lo hacen con la aprobación de su propia conciencia.

  C. S. Lewis

  Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Democracies Have

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  16 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.

  Bill Moyers

  Father, Mean, Responsibility

  "For America's Sake". Speech on December 12, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy". Book by Bill D. Moyers, p. 17, 2008.

  37 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• De todas las tiranías, una tiranía ejercida sinceramente por el bien de sus víctimas puede ser la más opresiva.

  C. S. Lewis

  Paz, Guerra, Gobierno

  C. S. Lewis (2003). "Una mente despierta: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis", p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  73 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

  Max Lerner

  Knights, American Capitalism, Has Beens

  5 Copiar cita

• Es un verdadero enigma por qué la gente es tan reacia al verdadero capitalismo de libre mercado, incluso ahora. Aquí estamos, en el siglo que ha visto a Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot, y todavía se nos advierte contra los "barones ladrones" del siglo XIX. No sé si Jay Gould o John D. Rockefeller mataron alguna vez a alguien. El Estado ha matado a innumerables personas y, sin embargo, siempre se supone que debemos permanecer en guardia contra estos "villanos codiciosos" de antaño.

  Joseph Sobran

  Real, Gente, John D Rockefeller

  45 Copiar cita

• The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

  Clare Short

  Ethical Standards, World, Demand

  4 Copiar cita

• People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But the truth is that it is a lot like an ecosystem. And you get many of the same results.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Ecosystems, People

  14 Copiar cita

• I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Radical, Robbers, I Can

  45 Copiar cita

• When John Kennedy attempted to take the government back from the back from the robber barons, he was brutally murdered. The message to future US president and leaders across the world was clear: do as you're told, or die. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the last true president of the United States. And until the globalists are removed from power, we will never have another real one.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Real, Power

  273 Copiar cita

• Un gobierno sabio y frugal, que impida a los hombres perjudicarse unos a otros, que los deje libres para regular sus propias actividades de industria y mejora, y que no le quite al trabajo el pan que se ha ganado. Esta es la suma del buen gobierno, y esto es necesario para cerrar el círculo de nuestras felicidades.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sabios, Sabiduría, Hombres

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). "Jefferson sobre la libertad: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way", p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  113 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Mean, Government, Average

  11 Copiar cita

• Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Compassion, Keys

  7 Copiar cita

• I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A King’s Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.

  Simon Rich

  Kings, Fun, Crazy

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Entrevista con Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. 9 de junio de 2010.

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mistake, Sleep, Tyrants

  "A Reply to Professor Haldane (1946)". "Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1966.

  22 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

  David Mamet

  Dad, Ideas, Coins

  5 Copiar cita

• Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Army, Cowboy

  "The Real Blackwater Scandal: Build a Frontier, You Get Cowboys". Interview with John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2010.

  14 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente