Capitalism Quotes

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.

Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.

Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.

When you get down to the meat and potatoes of genuine capitalism, it is cutthroat, vicious competition, and the consumer always benefits in the end.

I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'

The problem with this world is the unequal distribution of capitalism.

The pope once again ripped - I mean, really ripped - capitalism and Americans' immigration policy at the Mexican border, before he boarded the plane and returned to Italy.

I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else do I want? Money. I am trying to earn a profit. It's capitalism.

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

I don't put much faith in the political system because it's a question of how are you going to run capitalism, not how are we going to develop a different system to capitalism.

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.

Long live gravity! Long live stupidity, error, and greed in the palaces of fantasy capitalism!

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.

Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their being performed, and is proportioned to the diligence employed in performing them.

The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.

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

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage.

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”(Analects 4.9)

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”(Analects 4.16)

The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”(Analects 2.12)

Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

Exchange, fair or unfair, always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.

And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

We’ve each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men’s profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.

[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.