Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.

At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.

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

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism.

A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?

Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.

I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political order.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.

Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone who had read them knows that.

Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.

There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

Capitalism is the key to survival.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.