Quotes About Capitalism

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in the proper working of the free market. That's why I found the scandals of 2008, the banks, Libor, absolutely abhorrent.

What happens to our economy and all our wonderful innovation if people are not properly incentivized and rewarded?

Property is organized robbery.

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.

The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Governments don't get elected saying, 'We're going to lower GDP next year,' governments get elected on saying, 'We're going to increase prosperity and the happiness and the wealth of our nations.' But that kind of capitalism will only lead to the destruction of our planet.

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

Romantic love is a collective arena within which the social divisions and the cultural contradictions of capitalism are played out.

Capitalism is characterized by an entire cultural mindset, in that 'exchange relationships, that of buying and selling, have permeated most of the society.

The Fed's action is, as the saying goes, socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.

But as Michael Sandel, a Harvard philosopher, explained in his 2012 book, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, we have moved from accepting a market economy to creating a market society, one in which everything is seen through the prism of price.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

At some point, there will be some other financial crisis. It's in the nature of a capitalist system.

There are no free financial markets in America or, for that matter, anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind.

I think financial markets only look after their own interests.

In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.