Capitalism Quotes

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

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

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.

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

We see how capitalism is destroying Mother Earth. I remain convinced that the Earth can exist without man but man cannot live without the Earth.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.

The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the line, but to benefit the masses even more than the rich.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.

It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.

I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.