Quotes About Capitalism

Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

Money really is a dirty word.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Affective exploitation is crucial to late capitalism.

The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.

The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.

While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which 'Star Wars' became a symbol. Late capitalism can't produce many new ideas any more, but it can reliably deliver technological upgrades. But 'Star Wars' didn't really belong to the science fiction genre any way.

Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism's creative destruction of slower industries.

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of money and capitalism.

But in spite of its bent toward self-interest, even with its excesses and inequalities, capitalism has a historic opportunity to create shared wealth that can benefit every person on the globe. I am convinced that our best hope for moving the poverty needle toward financial wellness once and for all lies with the best practices of the free market.

Russians had interpreted capitalism to mean: "Steal what you can sell.

Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is.

She's not big on achievements either: she says so on her tumblr page. Feeling guilty about not achieving stuff is the result of internalised capitalism, apparently.' 'Seriously?' 'Oh yeah. You never been to a communist country? Everyone lies on sofas all day while trained poodles bring them cake.

Feeling guilty about not achieving stuff is the result of internalised capitalism, apparently.' 'Seriously?' 'Oh yeah. You never been to a communist country? Everyone lies on sofas all day while trained poodles bring them cake.

The various inequalities that define the contemporary world—imposed through white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism—all are based on this central feature of patriarchy, an attempt to make the domination/subordination dynamic appear to be a natural, and hence inevitable, feature of human societies.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

If socialism failed, it was for political, more than economic, reasons; and if capitalism is to succeed it will be because it finds the political will and means to tame its economic forces.

Robert L. Heilbroner

It is that wealth is inextricably associated with inequality. This is an insight that we get from a most unlikely source, the first of the great philosophers of capitalism, who wrote that "wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. . . . The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many." It is Adam Smith speaking, not Karl Marx.11

It's financial literacy. It begins with the ability to understand the words and the number systems of capitalism. If you don't understand the words or the numbers, you might as well be speaking a foreign language. And, in many cases, each quadrant represents a foreign language.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope." ? Karl Marx

with his irritation and anger still at a boiling point, Brian thought again about the two CEOs and how they seemed to be poster children for what was wrong with American medicine and unbridled entrepreneurial capitalism. And as a doer, he knew he couldn't just passively allow their greediness to go unchallenged and dictate the unraveling of his life. He had to do something. He just didn't know what.