Quotes About Capitalism

Man can only use money to buy man-made goods.

g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.

Whoever thirst for money is real victim of a capital illusion.

It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.

But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.