Capitalism Quotes

That comes to about one hundred million people in India alone from 1947 to 1980. But we don’t call t...

One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well t...

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but...

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies i...

I can quite understand a man accepting laws that protect private property, and admit of its accumula...

As a rule from what I've observed the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of busi...

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass the...

Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capit...

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard...

Few great men could pass Personnel.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and veg...

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in orde...

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity an...

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I liter...

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, a...

Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.

I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was bo...

No society has succeeded in abolishing the distinction between ruler and ruled... to be a ruler give...

Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that cl...

Look, everything the Communists say about capitalism is true, and everything the capitalists say abo...

It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immedi...

The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, “This is mine; each one by himself, eac...

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life...

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.A...

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a mu...

So let us replace the word with a true description. People in our societies own things, their labour...

It is important to note that the acquisition of wealth, as the accepted standard of succes, does not...

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and ...

Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception....

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and th...

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea,...

Oh, and 13.1 million American people had their homes foreclosed. Because their debt, it turns out, w...

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous w...

She was willing a little bit of sweated labour, incapable of betraying the slogan of her slavers, th...

...there's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism.

Capitalism is rotten at every level, and yet it adds up to something extraordinarily useful for soci...

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wo...

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbli...

In this way the world market is, with regard to its immanent dynamic, 'a space in which everyone has...

The Deleuzian philosopher Brian Massumi clearly formulated how today's capitalism has already overco...

Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we ...

Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capital...

Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the s...

Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingl...

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that th...

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in...

You should not have too many people waiting on you, you should have to do most things for yourself. ...

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But ...

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack coca...

When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called hu...

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

In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big ...

... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean h...

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feeling...

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice whe...

It was evidently quite obvious to a powerful intellect like his that the one essential condition for...

I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed...

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the futur...

This generation - it's almost a religious thing now. The millennium, the end days, no need to be res...

One glance at any government budget anywhere in the world tells the story—the money is always in pla...

The Northern powers are more like administrators, who manipulate other people’s history but produce ...

The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night ...

It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the peo...

Why will the Structure allow every other kind of sexual behavior but that one? Because submission an...

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the le...

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who...

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. a...

To Jurgis the packers had been the equivalent to fate; Ostrinski showed him that they were the Beef ...

They could tell the whole hateful story of it, set forth in the inner soul of a city in which honor ...

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing...

All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. He was in t...

They would tell you that governments could not manage things as economically as private individuals;...

It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All...

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment...

Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims ...

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human powe...

o. It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. ...

Because there is nothing, nothing on Urras that we Anarresti need! We left with empty hands, a hundr...

He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But ...

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to...

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems no...

In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for...

Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.