Capitalism Quotes
For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.
When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.
Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.
Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
I do think, over the last years, a lot of Republicans have decided it's not working, what the party believed in, free trade, global capitalism, open borders.
Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it to be opposed? Republicans have taken a very clear line.
Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.
Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.
In 2003, Helmut Schmidt said: Predatory capitalism exists, we have to civilize it and we can do that via Europe. He was right. We haven't tried hard enough.
There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."
The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged.
A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.
I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.
Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.
I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.
Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.
I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback of freedom.
I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.
What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.
Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or another variant of state capitalism.
As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.
Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism.
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.
The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.
F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.
I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.
In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.
The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.
Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but is the current form of capitalism the best way of it working?
The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.
Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.
Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.