Capitalism Quotes

• The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

  

  Nick Cohen
  • Consequence
  • Late
  • Accidents

• Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Dying
  • Socialism
  • Imperialism

• Are there no American citizens sympathizing with whiteguard emigres who conduct propaganda in favor of capitalism, against the Soviets? Then what does the point involve? The point is not to assist these persons, not to finance their activities. The point is that officials of both countries should not interfere in the internal affairs of the other country.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Propaganda
  • American Citizens
  • Soviets

• It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

  

  Jim Moran
  • Parks
  • Kites
  • Midget

• The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

  

  Will Hutton
  • Decision
  • Financial
  • Century

• When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

  

  Bill O'Brien
  • Discover
  • Capitalism
  • Marxism

• Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.

  

  Enver Hoxha
  • Theory
  • Socialist
  • Yugoslavia

• Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

  

  Al Capone
  • Opportunity
  • Capitalism
  • Hang On

• In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education

  

  George Gilder
  • Company
  • Enterprise
  • Protagonists

• Capitalism should be driving positive social change.

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • Change
  • Social
  • Capitalism

• Although critics of capitalism claim regulations were being gutted during the Bush years, the number of Register pages exploded—as did the amount spent by federal regulatory agencies and the number of people employed by those agencies.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • People
  • Critics
  • Capitalism

• Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Capitalism
  • Adopted
  • Economic Principle

• We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.

  

  Nicholas von Hoffman
  • War
  • Debt
  • Wages

• Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Capitalism
  • Militarism

• Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

  

  David Lilienthal
  • Country
  • Emotional
  • Contradiction

• I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything against business or private enterprise or capitalism per se, but I think that it is time to rethink the regulation of capitalism.

  

  Charles Ferguson
  • Enjoyed
  • Businessman
  • Regulation

• I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Work
  • Aspect
  • Phase

• Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Catholicism without Hell.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Capitalism
  • Bankruptcy
  • Catholicism

• Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.

  

  Attila Kotanyi
  • Capitalism
  • Spectacle
  • Alienation

• I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Future

• Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

  

  Allan H. Meltzer
  • Failure
  • Capitalism
  • Losses

• The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

  

  William Pfaff
  • Political
  • Intellectual
  • Determine

• I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Work
  • Capitalism
  • Antiregulation

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