Quotes About Capitalism

Metaphysics—objective reality; Epistemology—reason; Ethics—self-interest; Politics—capitalism.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good.

Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Everything is designed to help you sell out.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

I think the growing disregard for the environment, culture, and heritage is a natural consequence of capitalism.

We live in a capitalist society. I think if anyone, in any field, was approached and someone said, 'Hi! You know that job you are already doing? Would you like to do it next week for quadruple your normal pay?' Show me one person who would say no.

Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.

The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets-anything that might throw light upon the past had been systemically altered.

I have managed to make the Capitalist class pay me several pounds a week for writing books against Capitalism.

What we call democracy in a capitalist country only remains in being while things are going well; in time of difficulty it turns immediately into Fascism.

The attitude of the Indian millionaires was similar. Gandhi called upon them to repent, and naturally they preferred him to the Socialists and Communists who, given the chance, would actually have taken their money away.

Blake was not a politician, but there is more understanding of the nature of capitalist society in a poem like "I wander through each charter'd street" than in three-quarters of Socialist literature.

The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed.