Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism is an art form.

The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600 years. Today is almost as extreme in the opposite way.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few.

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Unbridled capitalism will lead to some very real problems.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

Economics is really politics in disguise.

Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best.

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Net - the biggest word in the language of business.

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

True #‎ anarchism will be #‎ capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives.

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

Chaplin is no businessman

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.