Capitalism Quotes
Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . .
Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.
The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power.
The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it.
The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings
Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress.
All we’ve got left to protect here is a system that’s set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.
The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange.
For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.
Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity
Like capitalism, ” Carl suggested. “‘We’ll give you so much pleasure, you’ll never want to try another socioeconomic system.
We don’t live in a free market society… markets are controlled by the major players who influence legislation to perpetuate their control...
Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.
China's success lies on being a communist community within and a capitalist company outside.
Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.
Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.
Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism.
Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?
The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.
People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.
We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.
If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident.
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.
The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.
The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.
Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?
Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.
Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?
The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.
For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.
The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.
Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.
The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…
Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were expected to rise for the sake of others, in America.
That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.
Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost.
In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands.
Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.
Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?""Capitalists, " said Anna.
