Capitalism Quotes

We’ve each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men’s profit, and have been aske...

You think of killing himon the spotbut discard that thought andleave,down into the urine-stinkingele...

Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.

Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder ...

Don’t you have any concept of individuality?" she asks, annoyed by its presumption at meddling with ...

If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are s...

Money has replaced the vote.

The cult of self dominates our cultural landscape. This cult has within it the classic traits of psy...

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human li...

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous t...

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good th...

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

This American system of ours', he shouted, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what yo...

Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Busin...

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?

The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquir...

The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse g...

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashame...

The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”(Analects 2.12)

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit....

There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money fr...

The black conservatives claim that the decline of values such as patience, deferred gratification, a...

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

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neolib...

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Ch...

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer c...

Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system ...

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of huma...

How did we get here? My own suspicion is that we are looking at the final effects of the militarizat...

The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal sta...

...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that...

Beyond the speculative and often fraudulent froth that characterizes much of neoliberal financial ma...

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather tha...

One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you...

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

But the more time has been released from production, the more imperative it has become to absorb tha...

Capitalists too, as the novelist Charles Dickens noted, liked to think of their workers as 'hands' o...

Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called nat...

Since the 1970S, financial innova­tions such as the securitisation of mortgage debt and the spreadin...

We can't, it seems, live without [capitalism] even as we complain about it.

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the l...

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

Wake up America!The insurance companies took over health care!Wake up America! The pharmaceutical co...

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry ...

...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire t...

You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels.""Its own grave-diggers," he said."B...

Then they’re always trying to sell you something. Everything is based on forcing people to buy. If y...

I visit my assistant mistress. "Well, Azalea," I say, sitting in the best chair, "what has happened ...

Smoke, rain, abulia. What can the concerned citizen do to fight the rise of capitalism, in his own c...

The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done...

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are...

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The a...

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true eco...

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capital...

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty...

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquer...

Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this ...

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indi...

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good...

For capitalism to work, we all need one another.

A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indire...

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions...

So far as I am aware no leader of a party of the European left in the past twenty-five years has dec...

Once again it is evident that even between major crises, ‘the market’ has no answer to the major pro...

And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answe...

There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our econ...

If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and ad...

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from a...

What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth ce...

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...

There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why...

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and ...

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, h...

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a poin...

The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, pr...

Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the othe...

Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which w...

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for proper...

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and...

The Union is what needs defending this year. Government of Enron and by Halliburton and for the Sout...

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force...

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French...

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just e...

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from...

In the history of enterprise most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began the...

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all co...

[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Th...

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fund...

Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cur...

For if in careless summer daysIn groves of Ashtaroth we whored,Repentant now, when winds blow cold,W...