Capitalism Quotes
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.
Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.
Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.
...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.
People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.
What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.
The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.
Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.
The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.
The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.
If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.
The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.
Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
