Quotes About Capitalism

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

Socialism is politicized envy.

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

Human life must be cheap to the one who can place the dollar above it -John Ruston

Left-wing policies don't stop the rich from being rich, they stop the non-rich from getting rich.

One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'

You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: 'Atlas Shrugged.' Ayn Rand.

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

I'm pro-free enterprise.

There are two ways to make money in a capitalist, patriarchal setting: 1. Fuck other people over faster and more efficiently than they fuck you over. 2. Whore

And I don't believe in this materialism, in this consumer society, in this capitalism, in this outrageous horror that happens / takes place here…. I really do believe in something, and I call it "a day will come." And one day it will come. Well, probably it won't come, since they've always destroyed it for us…. It won't come, and I believe in it anyway. Because if I can't believe in it anymore then I can't write anymore either.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

Since the capital system cannot set limits to itself, also, it cannot differentiate between the growth of a child and the growth of a cancer.

Ayn Rand was a genius.

We have reinforced this limited choice by putting socialism in our left hand and capitalism in our right hand, leaving no other hands. The

Industrialization finally drove the West out of a mercantile economy and into a capitalist one. Before industrialization, the most important factor in determining the wealth of a country was its volume of trade, or exports minus imports. After industrialization, the value of what a country could produce became more important.

Das Kapital

The goods produced by labour above what is necessary for survival Marx called the "Surplus Value".

So capitalists, according to Marx, quite literally rob the proletariat of their freedom, their culture and their essentially human traits, and force them to work endlessly just to acquire the basic means of survival.