Capitalist Quotes

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

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.

If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations

While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.

Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

The capitalist priority is efficiency of capital and profitability, which is generally inconsistent with protecting the vulnerabilities of people and nature.

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.

The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.

It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.

I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself.