Quotes About Capitalism

The far left's mockery of the competitive institutions of "bourgeois democracy" and capitalism, its cynicism about the possibility of any objectivity in the media, the civil service, or the judiciary, has long had a right-wing version too. Hitler's Germany is the example usually given. But there are many others, from Franco's Spain to Pinochet's Chile.

The far left's mockery of the competitive institutions of "bourgeois democracy" and capitalism, its cynicism about the possibility of any objectivity in the media, the civil service, or the judiciary, has long had a right-wing version too.

El capitalismo y la democracia liberal habían fracasado estrepitosamente a lo largo de la década de 1930. Muchos creyeron que había llegado el momento de probar algo distinto.

proposed an antidote to the deadening impact of capitalist spectacle in what he named "constructed situations," which calls on artists to create moments that coax people out of passivity, rendering them the co-creators of what promises to be, according to Debord, a less mediocre life.

We do not believe that capitalism, or any economic system, is the cause of female oppression, nor do we believe that female oppression will disappear as a result of purely economic revolution.

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Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from.

I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.

The word 'commercial' implies a notion of profit.

Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?

There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.

Airport expansion is just one example of how our planet is being plundered for profit.

If someone is doing that, saving the customer money, is making a profit so bad?

You don't have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.

I support the free enterprise system, and I want companies to make money, but they shouldn't be reaping profits from the deaths of their employees or former employees.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.

I actually am a capitalist, and I believe in shareholders. But I believe in them as a result of what I do, not as a reason for what I'm doing. The same with profits - profits alone cannot be an objective. It has to have a purpose.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.