Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly.

If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.