Quotes About Capitalism

One by one those capitalist countries which arrive at a complete impasse, take the road of fascism

The chief privilege of capitalism, today as in the past, remains the ability to choose.... And since it does have the freedom to choose, capitalism can always change horses in mid-stream--the secret of its vitality.

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

Le capitalisme, un certain capitalisme, existe depuis toujours, voir dès l'antique Babylone qui a connu des banquiers, des marchands engagés dans des affaires lointaines, et tous les instruments de crédit: lettre de change, billet à ordre, chèque... En ce sens, l'histoire du capitalisme va 'd'Hammourabi à Rockefeller'.

El capitalismo es detestable. El comunismo es peor. El capitalismo te permite a un tiempo llevar vida de capitalista y renegar del capitalismo, mientras que el comunismo es por principio incompatible con cualquier forma de disidencia.

The primary message of Dependency and Development was that the people of Latin America had control over their own fate. Under certain circumstances, we could indeed operate within the existing system. Many alternatives were possible within that system, and the fatalism that dominated the region at that time was entirely pointless, we wrote. There would, of course, be certain restrictions, and we did not advocate blind free-market capitalism.

To make matters worse, it was clear that small-scale subsistence farming had, sadly, become extremely difficult to maintain in a modern economy. Many of the MST settlements depended on government subsidies to survive. They could wave red Che Guevara flags and rage against the unfairness of global capitalism until they turned hoarse, but that was the reality we all had to live in.

Hoy en Estados Unidos se están produciendo y masacrando al año por este sistema de producción desalmada 50 millones de vacas, terneros y cerdos, 200 millones de pavos y 6.000 millones de pollos para que los dueños de los Burger King, los McDonald's y los Wendy's inflen sus bolsas y los comedores de carne, negros y blancos, cristianos y musulmanes, tengan carburante para sus almas inmortales.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Capitalism is using its money we socialists throw it away.

L'injonction capitaliste (tout ce qui est agréable est obligatoire) est aussi stupide que la culpabilité chrétienne (tout ce qui est agréable est interdit).

El mandato capitalista (todo lo que es placentero es obligatorio) es igual de estúpido que la culpabilidad cristiana (todo lo que es placentero está prohibido).

Mesajul c?r?ii? (,,De veghe în lanul de secar?") Fie de conformezi stilului de via?? al clasei de mijloc, fie sfâr?e?ti la azil. Îcepând din 1951, orizontul spiritelor libere în sistemul capitalist este spitalul de psihiarie.

Sabéis cuál es la diferencia entre los ricos y los pobres? Los pobres venden droga para comprarse unas Nike mientras que los ricos venden Nikes para comprar droga.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

Laissez faire, laissez passer.

How marvelous it was to stand in a place like the Soviet Union and talk about the coming kingdom and to tell them that Communism will not win. I told them capitalism would not win either; it's the kingdom of God that is going to win.

The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is an euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.

Le travail peut nuire gravement à votre santé. En fait, le travail est un meurtre de masse, un génocide. Directement ou indirectement, le travail va tuer la plupart des lecteurs de ces lignes.

Nous tuons des gens par millions dans le but de vendre des Big Mac et des Cadillac aux survivants. [...] Morts pour rien - ou, pour mieux dire, morts au nom du travail. Or, le culte du travail ne mérite vraiment pas qu'on meure pour lui.

If Capitalism has a definition it includes, surely, the concept value for money. You do not spend any more than your have to; you go where labour is cheapest, resources most bountiful, rules most lax, governments most permissive. Yet you also pay an idiot a fortune for doing nothing, and it is hard to see why. And if he is a hereditary idiot, very hard to see why.

about balancing capitalism with moral sentiment, especially over the distribution and use of profits for the good of mankind.

Those events, held in mid-December at another Kubla Khan luxe resort, are a Ford Bronco chase of trades and desperation, capitalism on a four-day crack toot.