Capitalism Quotes

...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire t...

You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels.""Its own grave-diggers," he said."B...

Then they’re always trying to sell you something. Everything is based on forcing people to buy. If y...

I visit my assistant mistress. "Well, Azalea," I say, sitting in the best chair, "what has happened ...

Smoke, rain, abulia. What can the concerned citizen do to fight the rise of capitalism, in his own c...

The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done...

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are...

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The a...

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true eco...

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capital...

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty...

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquer...

Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this ...

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indi...

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good...

For capitalism to work, we all need one another.

A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indire...

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions...

So far as I am aware no leader of a party of the European left in the past twenty-five years has dec...

Once again it is evident that even between major crises, ‘the market’ has no answer to the major pro...

And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answe...

There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our econ...

If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and ad...

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from a...

What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth ce...

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...

There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why...

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and ...

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, h...

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a poin...

The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, pr...

Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the othe...

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which w...

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for proper...

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and...

The Union is what needs defending this year. Government of Enron and by Halliburton and for the Sout...

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force...

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French...

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just e...

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from...

In the history of enterprise most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began the...

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all co...

[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Th...

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fund...

Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cur...

For if in careless summer daysIn groves of Ashtaroth we whored,Repentant now, when winds blow cold,W...

Even the 'right to live'...extends no further than the right to protection against murder. Charity c...

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to concealthe ugly fact that by an iniquitous money ...

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-ba...

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it g...

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleash...

So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and ...

...I suppose it is a lingering trace of Plutarch and my ineradicable boyish imagination that at bott...

When we think of readapting mankind to a world of unity and co-operation, we have to consider that p...

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to l...

If the world were full of the self-seeking individuals found in economics textbooks, it would grind ...

Recognizing that the boundaries of the market are ambiguous and cannot be determined in an objective...

As these contrasts show, capitalism has undergone enormous changes in the last two and a half centur...

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, p...

My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though th...

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limitat...

Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.

What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the bod...

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a ...

The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberali...

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Alfred . . . stands, high and haughty, on that good old respectable ground, the right of the stronge...

He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or ...

Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was una...

Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and w...

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed...

I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life it...

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray t...

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.

Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take aw...

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages...

If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if th...

In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was ...

How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top o...

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can supp...

You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some s...

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous languag...

Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In som...

Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, dead...

Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as...

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing...

The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poo...