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Quotes About Capitalism

We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.
~ Mark Boyle
God did not die; he was transformed into money
~ Giorgio Agamben
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
~ Ayn Rand
Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it
~ Kailash Satyarthi
I do not like money, money is the reason we fight.
~ Karl Marx
Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.
~ Karl Marx
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
~ George Osborne
A 5 letter word for happiness: MONEY.
~ Mr. Krabs
Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.
~ Don Henley
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.
~ Karl Marx
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
~ Evita Peron
The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.
~ Nick Hanauer
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.
~ Richard D. Wolff
Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Until you change the way money works, you change nothing.
~ Michael Ruppert
Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
~ Satish Kumar
Money makes the world go round.
~ John Kander
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
~ Matt Taibbi
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
~ Karl Marx
I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
~ John Malkovich
The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.
~ Isabella Bird
Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.
~ Muhammad Yunus