Quotes About Capitalism

The USSR model was never a serious threat to anyone's bottom line. People blow up over Germany because, for all its left-wing bent, it may be a more plausible form of capitalism than ours.

Democracy ….[is not]… simply a form of government but an organizing principle that bundles individual freedoms, Christianity, and capitalism into a marketable product carrying with it the unexamined promise of wealth and prosperity.

Or, if you want the positive but somewhat callous view, you might wish to describe Christianity as the gateway drug to supply-side capitalism

The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it

But surely, she argued with herself, life was more than this relentless getting ahead? Surely, there was more to life than self-actualization and ambition and success? What was wrong with linking one's happiness to that of another human being? Why should fifty years of peak capitalism eradicate something that the Eastern philosophers had taught for thousands of years—that life is about interconnectedness, interdependence, and yes, even sacrifice?

Capitalists don't want free trade any more than they want whooping cough. Their nature is to conglomerate, homogenate, vertically integrate and dominate until there is no competition. The rules? Screw the rules! They'll rig the game, spit on the ball, bribe the refs, tilt the playing field, pork the cheerleaders and kick free enterprise in the nuts.

It is the soulless American who has no heart, who has no thought beyond putting a mighty dollar out at mighty interest, who has no zest for any other book than his soulless ledger.

There is no reason for a person to have thousands of millions of dollars.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

Americans are raised to believe that anything is possible in America if you are pure of heart and willing to work hard, which is nonsense, and that anyone can become president, which is even more foolish, and that free markets always make the right decision, which is nuts.

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

Early in the Obama administration, our economic team faced intense pressure to go down the road of coercive capitalism.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased

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

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.

Is history about money?

Per poco Salima non scoppiò a ridere. Se lo faceva lei era un crimine, se lo metteva in vendita un'azienda era un prodotto. Qualsiasi cosa poteva diventare un prodotto.

If a paycheck could change your life, do you think they'd let you have one?

The scientists that present at TED confabs needn't affirm free-market capitalism directly… so long as the implication of their thinking have free-market "consilience"… In fact, TED has become a spectacularly influential force in part through its conciliation of science and libertarian economics, which it then sells to us as entertainment.

La società capitalista, ad esempio, è la forma più possibile di cristianesimo. Che senza l'esistenza del male non vi può esser Cristo. Che la società capitalista è fondata su questo sentimento: che senza l'esistenza di esseri che soffrono, non si possa interamente godere dei proprii beni e della propria felicità; che il capitalismo, senza l'alibi del cristianesimo, non potrebbe reggere.

Bolshevism, it seems to me,' said Charlie, 'is just a superlative hatred of the thing they call the bourgeois; and what the bourgeois is, isn't quite defined. It is Capitalism, among other things. Feelings and emotions are also so decidedly bourgeois that you have to invent a man without them.