Quotes About Capitalism

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.

Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

Society is secretly driven by sales

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.