Capitalism Quotes

Before I went to college I read two books. I read a book “Moral Mazes” by Robert Jackall which is a ...

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectual...

People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversatio...

Public services are never better performed than when their reward comes only in consequence of their...

A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may in most cases be both made and maintained b...

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself wi...

Commerce and manufactures can seldom flourish long in any state which does not enjoy a regular admin...

The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating ...

Yet in reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginal...

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system ...

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the c...

The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By ...

Production is carried on for profit, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and will...

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with posses...

There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know. I mean, when a child asks you how a...

It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits...

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] ...

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

In the old days, farmers would keep a little of their home-made opium for their families, to be used...

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through ...

Mr. Disney, we are returning your Duck. Feathers plucked and well-roasted. Look inside, you can see ...

Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is ...

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.

In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every p...

Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the...

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shop...

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "m...

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen...

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive g...

Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everyth...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

There might be some sort of justification for the savage societies in which a man had to expect that...

In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete sep...

In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for ex...

Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie ...

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do...

Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the...

The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safet...

Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradic...

I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects...

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporat...

Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth....

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodi...

This was 1990 the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the wor...

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not whe...

This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning an...

The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time...

Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for ...

I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a w...

Expenditure rises to meet income.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reje...

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...

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...