Quotes About Capitalism

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital.

The average price of wage-labor, is the minimum wage ...

En resumen, lo que en 1848 tal vez impresionara a un lector sin compromisos como retórica revolucionaria -o, a lo sumo, como una predicción creíble- puede hoy leerse como una concisa caracterización del capitalismo de fines del siglo XX.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

I can fight for something in the name of democratization, although I don't use that word a lot anymore. Come on, man. I hate democratic capitalism.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.