Capitalist Quotes

Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development.

If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.

The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.

Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.

There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system. It's sort of a derivative of Cloward-Piven.

This guy [Steven Lerner] is a pure anti-capitalist. He despises America. He is on a personal crusade.

Only capitalists get photographers.

We do not have to get rid of consumer-capitalist society before we can begin to build the new way. The way to replace the old system is to ignore it to death.

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

First of all, the majority of us, regardless of what we may say, are capitalists. That is, we practice it, it's what we "do," it's how we live, we are capitalists.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.

Every man has a starting capital in life and it is called worth or self-worth.

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.

Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to it poverty grows every day.

Good God, is the man a heathen?’‘Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.

Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their assets and to their investments........

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow.

Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few.

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

Every capitalist is rich, but every rich is not a capitalist.

Capitalism is an ability to stay rich and keep getting rich.

Are there any capitalist cats?" Nakata asked

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance

A free state is a corporate state.

He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an Übermensch and “the Singularity’s chosen avatar,