Capitalism Quotes

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because every man must feel like a lord in his own manor.

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a hlgh class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.

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

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.