Quotes About Capitalism

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth.

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

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.

Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.

Adam Smith expanded on this notion by saying that a person pursing his own selfish interests may be "led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

it would probably be more correct, and certainly more important, to see not capitalism but individualism as the opposite of socialism.

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

Capitalism works only when institutions are forced to absorb the consequences of the risks that they take on. When banks can pocket the upside while spreading the cost of their failures, failure is almost certain.

Uno degli obiettivi del sistema [attuale] è di creare bisogni da soddisfare producendo nuovi beni a titolo di riparazione, compensazione o consolazione

non basta mettere in discussione il capitalismo, bisogna contestare ogni società della crescita. [...] Contestare la società della crescira implica la messa in discussione del capitalismo, ma l'inverso non è automatico.

Uno degli obiettivi del sitema [attuale] è di creare bisogni da soddisfare producendo nuovi beni a titolo di riparazione, compensazione o consolazione

La sociedad de lo sucedáneo os seguirá utilizando como máquinas, alimentando como máquinas, controlando como máquinas, haciendo currar como máquinas, y se deshará de vosotros, como máquinas, cuando ya no podáis manteneros en estado de funcionamiento».

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

where did I think the rich got their money but from everyone else?

their bodies seemed to be a battlefield" between the values of the west, the "'capitalist' construction in which female bodies are 'sexualized, objectified, thingified' and the traditional in which women's bodies were 'chattelized,' 'propertized,' and terrorized as trustees of family (sexual) honor." (P. 524) Lama Abu-Odeh

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.

Corporations turned the human into a robot a long time ago.