Quotes About Capitalism

The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

Jesus' birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

The essence of good advertising is not to inspire hope, but to create greed.

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.