Capitalism Quotes

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality

Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.

The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...

Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.

...the opportunity for overthrowing capitalism has passed – Labor governments are the hope of the world.” From that time his commitment to the ALP was unquestioned.

Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.

It is the sensitive people in any organization that become aware of the need to discover the acceptable "middle" ground between "profit only" and "people only" and act accordingly.

They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.

Colonialism is the mother of terrorism.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.

Policymakers cannot take the situation lightly, for at its worst, it speaks to “intergenerational inequity” – a breaking of the social contract between two generations.

Actions that exemplify the limitations of a singular devotion to the profit motive, also draw a troublesome distinction between what is legal and what is moral.

Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.

The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven towards the abolition of private property.

The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen.

Inflationism is that monetary policy that seeks to increase the quantity of money.

Naive inflationism demands an increase in the quantity of money without suspecting that this will diminish the purchasing power of the money.

Inflation made it possible to divert the fury of the people to 'speculators' and 'profiteers'. Thus it proved itself an excellent psychological resource of the destructive and annihilist war policy.

The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few.

Globalization is a form of artificial intelligence.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

Europe is made of history, America of philosophy, Asia of prosperity, and Africa of opportunity.

Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?

The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women’s shame.

[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers.

Then they’re always trying to sell you something. Everything is based on forcing people to buy. If you can’t buy what they’re selling, you’re a zero in the system.

the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Ties are straightened and expressions banished.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada).