A Quote by Ellen Willis

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Ellen Willis

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Ellen Willis
American - Writer
December 14, 1941 - November 9, 2006

One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.

Michael Moore

Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.

Amy Ridenour

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

Karl Marx

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Joseph Stalin

Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

Vladimir Lenin

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

Vladimir Lenin

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

Karl Marx

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Charlotte Bronte

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.

Kim Il-sung

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

Charles Haughey

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

Herbert Read

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

Oscar Wilde

My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. It will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.