Profits Tax

Famous quotes containing the words profits and/or tax:

“All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)