Quotes About Capitalism

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

Exchange, fair or unfair, always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

I was struck by a shallow figure of speech. . . . that Christianity is the handmaiden of capitalism.

Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth's resources and living processes.

Modern science, as we have noted earlier, has a world-view that both supports and is supported by the socio-political-economic system of western capitalist patriarchy which dominates and exploits nature, women, and the poor.

Drug companies don't have hearts or consciences. They want to sell you drugs. The company doesn't give a fig whether the drug makes you ill or kills you. The company just wants your money.

What kind of society turns its young people into a profit center for the debt industry?

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

America is not a country, it's a business.

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

Monopoly is business at the end of its journey.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American business.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.