Capitalism Quotes

In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was ...

How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top o...

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can supp...

You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some s...

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous languag...

Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In som...

Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, dead...

Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as...

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing...

The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poo...

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a...

At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive...

Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, mo...

Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote t...

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

The essential difference between rich societies and poor societies does not stem from any greater ef...

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is mean...

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. B...

Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninet...

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for...

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical standards, ultimately...

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier ...

The corporation is an artificial being invisible intangible and existing only in contemplation of...

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will som...

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves a...

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of...

the marketplace is capable only of calculating exclusive costs; that is; excluding all possible cost...

Our essential difficulty is that we are seeking in a mechanism, which is necessary, qualities it sim...

Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--...

So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging pers...

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. ...

Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and ...

I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it wheth...

And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but...

Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry ...

The reason they outperformed her was that they accepted each new “product” without trying to underst...

To whom is an international corporation answerable? Often they do not employ workers. They outsource...

Nowadays… deals are transactional rather than personal. Instead of placing your faith in a person, y...

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's env...

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable p...

...the average Frenchman would shrug, as if to say: "These notions of yours are all very fascinating...

Nothing is more evident than that modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialis...

Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into...

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled ...

Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person payin...

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production...

In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. His economic bonda...

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; th...

But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is de...

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyl...

The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossa...

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philis...

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the rulin...

Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of v...

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make...

The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfi...

This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis...

Take the example of our spinner. We have seen that, to daily reproduce his labouring power, he must ...

To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the m...

But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags...

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

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for in...

Because life is robust,Because life is bigger than equations, stronger than money, stronger than gun...

So it’s democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of t...

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every p...

A conscience that is forbidden to operate in the choice of goals for economic activity is not consci...

Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a sw...

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method pos...

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to th...

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

The phenomenon of money presupposes an economic order in which production is based on division of la...

The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popul...

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market...

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

The role played by man in production always consists solely in combining his personal forces with th...

It is irrelevant to the entrepreneur, as the servant of the consumers, whether the wishes and wants ...

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing a...

How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how muc...

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the ...

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates h...

There has been much talk about the alleged exploitation of the debtor nations by the creditor nation...

The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has g...

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see ...

Nevertheless statesmen are still greatly exercised by the problem of the international distribution ...

But it must be observed that as the depreciation of money proceeds, the demand for money (i.e. for t...

It is the beginning of the 'demonetization' of the notes. The process is hastened by its panic-like ...

Consistently and uninterruptedly continued inflation must eventually lead to collapse. The purchasin...

Big variations in the value of money give rise to the danger that commerce will emancipate itself fr...

The mistake in the argument of those who suppose that a variation in the quantity of money results i...