Quotes – Robber barons

“I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.”
– Cornelius Vanderbilt

“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.”
– Cornelius Vanderbilt

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
– Jay Gould

“Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.”
– Andrew Mellon

“The lesson is clear: if you are a thief, steal by the billions or trillions, and then no one can do anything about it. If you are in the drug trade: handle only billions (or hundreds of billions) in drug money, and then you will get away with it. If you don’t want to pay taxes, be a member of the top 0.001% of the world’s super-rich and hide your billions in offshore tax-free accounts. If you want more, create a global economic crisis, demand to be saved by the state to the tune of tens of trillions of dollars, and then, tell the state to punish their populations into poverty in order to pay for your mistakes.
In other words, if you want to indulge your criminal fantasies, lie and steal, profit from death and drugs, dominate and demand, be king and command, become the highly-functioning socially-acceptable sociopath you always knew you could be… think big. Think bank. Serial killers, bank robbers and drug dealers go to jail; bankers get bailouts and get an unlimited insurance policy called “too big to fail.”
– Jurriaan Maessen, Global Research

“Ever since the days of Henry Ford, the Economic Elite have needed a thriving US middle class to increase growth and profits, but now, in the global economy, they view the US middle class as obsolete. They increasingly look globally for profits and they would rather pay cheap labor in countries like China and India.”
– David DeGraw

“Within the highest circles of power and wealth, a lack of pity and remorse is practically a prerequisite to success, and only the psychopathic mentality can thrive.”
– Stefan H. Verstappen

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