Capitalist Quotes

• Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Impossible
  • Economy
  • Function

• If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

  

  Eben Moglen
  • Capitalist
  • Goods
  • Proselytism

• That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • World
  • Real
  • Company

• I think there's pressure on every mayor who's trying to do the right thing by their people, and that's the pressure of a capitalist society, which does not want to give up a dime. They basically want to constrain the people in every way they can.

  

  Chokwe Lumumba
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Constrain

• We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Produce
  • Worker
  • Capitalist

• What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Capitalism
  • Consumers
  • Consumerism

• Alwasy remember.... We are engaged in a battle for the continuation of our capitalist, free-market economic model; our way of life; and our liberty. The enemy is anticapitalist, believes in big government, embraces collectivist ideologies, and has, over the past century, infiltrated every level of our government and most of the banking industry. They don’t care about patriotism, although they may sport the red, white, and blue and the stars and stripes on their bumper stickers. They don’t care about personal responsibility or civic duty. They don’t share your sense of honor. All they care about is power and control over your money and every aspect of your life.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Remember
  • Responsibility
  • Government

• Show me a first-generation fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.

  

  William H. Gates, Sr.
  • Generation
  • Partnership
  • Capitalist

• Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Obvious

• Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

  

  Joyce Appleby
  • Wealth
  • Capitalist
  • Exploitation

• Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Violence
  • Slavery
  • Modern

• The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Economic
  • Cooperation
  • Essentials

• The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Theory
  • Cases
  • Becoming

• If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.

  

  Bill Haywood
  • Hands
  • Workers
  • Capitalist

• Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Interesting
  • Sometimes
  • Capitalist

• As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

  

  Cees Nooteboom
  • Life
  • World
  • Fashion

• You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Trouble
  • Talking
  • Capitalism

• Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Leader
  • Century
  • Middle

• Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

  

  Monica Crowley
  • America
  • President
  • Capitalist

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