Quotes About Capitalism

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

And as an artist, as someone who writes stories and tries to make words into beautiful forms, it's vitally important to me, especially in a culture that's forgotten the value of beauty. It's a primary source or inspiration, I guess, when so much of what goes on around you is only about money and big swinging dick capitalism. It's important for blokes to be able to do beautiful stuff, impractical stuff, that adds to life. That's an early life-lesson from surfing.

It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention.

Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more "pretty goods" until no one else has your mix. .

Art Is Socialism, but Life Is Capitalism "My wife made the observation that everyone's equal on stage, but off stage, they're completely unequal." Mike wrote down, "Art is socialism but life is capitalism," and that became a guiding principle for his film Don't Think Twice.

El capitalismo premia lo que es raro y a la vez valioso.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.