Capitalism Quotes

One cannot equate "capitalism" and "democracy.

Money has replaced the vote.

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Catholicism without Hell.

If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.

...there's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism.

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.

Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.

We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.

To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.

Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.

What we do with the product of genius is first of all ram it down to the lowest common denominator and then multiply it by the vulgarest possible fraction. -from "Pawley's Peepholes

Socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. They can — and should — be used in tandem. Either alone is death by overdose. Balance.

Capitalism and socialism are tools. Each have pros and cons. For each task, use the one that makes the most sense.

People who dismiss all capitalism or all socialism are opposite ends of the same kind of stupid.

Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it.

Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.

Everyone, deep in their hears, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?

The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude -melancholy sadness- toward it.

Mr. Disney, we are returning your Duck. Feathers plucked and well-roasted. Look inside, you can see the handwriting on the wall, our hands still writing on the wall: Donald, Go Home!

How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess?

Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.

The construction of masculinity and femininity was driven by the need to sell products.

For now, we live in the mall, but I think it's closing soon.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops.

They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.

Socialism is not panacea and capitalism is not entirely evil.

Modernism has been consumed and remains partially digested in the belly of capital, awaiting occasional bouts of flatulence.

Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized.

And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question.

We can't, it seems, live without [capitalism] even as we complain about it.

Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps.

It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference.

Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.

the basic principle of capitalism: that the penalties (losses) no less than the rewards (profits) of risk taking shall go to those who embark on a productive venture.

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.

Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics.

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.

The principle locations of exploitation have moved, through the mechanism of 'globalisation', to where most of us can't see them and don't really care about them if we do.

To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

Capitalism needs war.

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take control of your world.

Above all, everything was expensive. Kids are idiots and slaves to desire. We didn't know what we really wanted, so we wanted everything.

, I believe in some type of free market system. I just don’t think you’ll find an example of one completely free from government intervention.

Marx himself wrote that capitalism produces above all its own gravediggers. Do you think that perhaps he wasn't talking about capitalism?

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?