Quotes About Capitalism

Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

Dagny and Fransisco d'Anconia? she said, smiling ruefully, in answer to the curiosity of her friends. Oh no, it's not a romance. It's an international industrial cartel of some kind.

You don't have to be a black-flag-waving anarchist to be outraged by this shortsightedness. Anyone who loves capitalism should be especially maddened—-because solutions and alternative sources of energy do exist that could enable us to transition swiftly from our fossil-fuel-based economy to one that runs on clean, renewable energy sources that don't contribute to global warming.

New York in the 1880's was already a city that seemed to have made up its mind that whatever existed was dispensable and replaceable, provided some more profitable use could be found for it.

Because in America, you could have anything you wanted, just as long as you could pay for it. If you couldn't pay, or refused to pay, you would remain needful for ever.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

a mere increase of wages will never redeem the evils of the industrial system

In fact, in an overwhelmingly commodified existence, consumption becomes the number one form of entertainment.

Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

Yes, of course enormous profits were made from both slavery and empire, but neither "created" capitalism... if capitalism is dependent on the sort of mass-scale exploitation implicit in slavery and imperialism, why did capitalism take so long to materialize? The ancient Chinese, Persians, Romans and Aztecs all had empires and slaves, yet none were capitalist.

Three decades ago, Robert Nisbet recognized that environmentalism was poised to become "the third great redemptive struggle in Western history, the first being Christianity, the second modern socialism." Western society, wrote Nisbet, was moving from "the Gospel of Capitalist Efficiency to the Gospel of Utopianism." One need not wade too deeply into the literature of a "steady state" or carbon-free economy to see the wisdom in Nisbet's prediction.

The Nazi ideologist—and Hitler rival—Gregor Strasser put it quite succinctly: "We are socialists. We are enemies, deadly enemies, of today's capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, its unfair wage system, its immoral way of judging the worth of human beings in terms of their wealth and their money, instead of their responsibility and their performance, and we are determined to destroy this system whatever happens!

In other words, every effort to do away with liberal democratic capitalism is reactionary, because they all attempt to restore the unity of purpose that defines the premodern or tribal mind. Socialism, nationalism, communism, fascism, and authoritarianisms of every stripe are forms of tribalism.

Kima Greggs: I've always been a bit of the antiestablishment side of things. I had very radical opinions about capitalism and the corporate structure.

As many have noted, the form that innovation takes within capitalism is as the continual simulation of the new, while existing relations of power and control remain effectively the same.

Death, in many guises, is one of the by-products of neoliberalism: when people have nothing further that can be taken from them, whether resources or labor or power, they are quite simply disposable.

Sleep is an uncompromising interruption of the theft of time from us by capitalism.

Como muitos já notaram, a forma que a inovação assume no capitalismo é a simulação contínua do novo, enquanto as relações de poder e de controle existentes permanecem, na prática, as mesmas.

And you'll find the Sanctity foundation underlying some of the moral passions of the environmental movement. Many environmentalists revile industrialism, capitalism, and automobiles not just for the physical pollution they create but also for a more symbolic kind of pollution—a degradation of nature, and of humanity's original nature, before it was corrupted by industrial capitalism.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

una moral moderna propia desde fines del siglo XV, comenzando por Ginés de Sepúlveda, filósofo moralista español del siglo XVI, pasando a un Hobbes en el siglo XVII, un Kant en el XVIII, un Nietzsche en el XIX o F. von Hayek en el siglo XX (este último, el formulador vienés del neoliberalismo que justifica la colonialidad, el capitalismo y el liberalismo que se imponen a las culturas periféricas).

la crisis ecológica inevitable causada por el capitalismo y la Modernidad17

International big business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood!