Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

Capitalism is destroying the earth.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema.

The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.

Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

Business is a combination of war and sport.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.