Quotes About Capitalism

Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

The Indian commitment to the semantics of socialism is at least as deep as ours to the semantics of free enterprise . . . Even the most intransigent Indian capitalist may observe on occasion that he is really a socialist at heart. J. K. GALBRAITH, economist, 1958

They'd done their best with democracy, with capitalism, but those had reached their limit long ago. They'd been corrupted, twisted to the interests of a few individuals, when the greatest problems the world faced were problems of collective interest.

They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.

When they brought in communism it was for the people, so they killed the people. Now they've brought in capitalism, which is for the rich, so they only kill the rich. This time you and I have nothing to worry about.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.

The world of the commodity is a world updside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume, the hellish cycle is complete.

The bourgeoisie does not dominate, it exploits. It does not need to be master, it prefers to use. Why has nobody seen that the principle of productivity simply replaced the principle of feudal authority? Why has nobody wanted to understand?

Her apprehensions about my becoming Mr. Multimixer had been laid to rest at this point, and I don't think she ever got over the shock of discovering that we were nearly $100,000 in debt. She couldn't seem to handle it. For me, this was the first phase of grinding it out—building my personal monument to capitalism. I paid tribute, in the feudal sense, for many years before I was able to rise with McDonald's on the foundation I had laid.

We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.

We are often told that capitalism is in crisis, but look around the world and you'll see that it has never been so buoyant.

We're always serving something, even if we're not aware of it. We're usually serving capitalism.

I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

The world is ending, make no mistake. It's coming to an end. This can't go on for much longer. Capitalism has to fall.

Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.

Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.