Capitalism Quotes

You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail.

To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.

To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.

Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.

You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the great injustices of capitalism.

FDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the workers. And I think that today you don't have those movements.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.

I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now

Europe is not managing its capitalism very well, it is not a good advertisement of capitalism

The capitalism we are in now is already coming to an end

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.

Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

We have the knowledge, resources, and capabilities to make global capitalism work in a more inclusive and socially responsible manner while retaining - indeed enhancing - its economic benefits.

From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism.

Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

I think that for the developing world there are many versions of capitalism, and countries have to choose one that's appropriate.

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.

Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!

The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes in retrograde ways like radical Islam.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.

Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.