Capitalism Quotes

Men have more to lose than their chains .

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.

Capitalism brings wealth and inequality with intellectuality.

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

American corporate capitalism is a murder-suicide mission.

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite

Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

Go home now, ” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.”“What are we going to need it for?” asks a voice from the crowd.“For guns and ammunition, ” says I.

What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh, ” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their assets and to their investments........

Capitalism is a social system where the health and security of a nation are compromised for corporate gain.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

Anarcho-capitalism: the realization that the only way to effectively govern the market is to have an effective market in governance.

the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.

Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin, and the coin tossedinto the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.

Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indirectly, to our economic and social iniquities, to our system of remorseless exploitation and robbery.

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.

When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

[C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick