Quotes About Capitalism

Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

Efficiency is a capitalist term that assumes one has the goal of achieving a certain level of productivity.

He's not as bad as everyone makes out. He might buy venerable old companies and strip their assets, causing numerous layoffs and the odd corporate suicide or two, but that's business. Inside, he's a big teddy bear.

Show me any major event on this planet, and I will show you the economic reason behind it. Commerce is all powerful, Miss Strange. Commerce rules our lives.

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

All these things - Factories, asylums, prisons, schools still exist and will no doubt continue to exist for an indefinite period as warning signs, to divert the reality of the domination of capital into an imaginary materiality. There have always been churches to hide the death of God, or to hide the fact that the God is everywhere, which amounts to the same thing.

If it could, capitalism would make due with white rats.

Il Nuovo Ordine Mondiale è disneico.

If at a given moment, the commodity was its own publicity (there was no other) today publicity has become its own commodity.

Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote to the Me First mentality that has rebranded capitalism as neo-liberalism. The shopping mall isn't our true home, nor is it a public space, though, as libraries, parks, playgrounds, museums and sports facilities disappear, for many the fake friendliness of the mall is the only public space left, apart from the streets

I mean, if I am going to invest in a new model, I'd have to be sure there's a market. We will create a market, said Claire with surprising ruthlessness. That's how business works. That's how late capitalism works, I said.

The fight against fascism had been won, but it was the fight against communism that really motivated Britain and America. The world's great capitalist democracies were not interested in any ideology except the rights of markets.

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired

Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.

There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

Governments never supply prosperity. At best, they can facilitate it, by allowing the free enterprise system to work. Usually they suppress it.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.