Capitalism Quotes

• Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Judge

• Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.

  

  Andi Zeisler
  • Capitalism
  • Feminism
  • Inequality

• We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the difference between something that's truly progressive and something that's just trying to get us to buy a product. Capitalism, ultimately, it's not about equality, it's not about social justice.

  

  Andi Zeisler
  • Justice
  • Capitalism
  • Consumers

• Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Socialism
  • Rational
  • Spun

• The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.

  

  Davis McCaughey
  • Leadership
  • Economics
  • Communism

• That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.

  

  Eula Biss
  • Children
  • Art
  • Values

• The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.

  

  Bob Avakian
  • Democracy
  • Essense
  • Political Structure

• I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Life
  • Capitalism

• If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.

  

  Eugen Weber
  • Capitalism
  • Fascists
  • National Socialist

• It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Trade
  • Capitalism
  • Marxism

• But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Giving
  • Capitalism
  • Concentration

• Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Democracy
  • Building
  • Socialism

• Capitalism does what it does and money doesn't belong to anybody. It just stays in someone's wallet for a while, then it goes somewhere else. It always goes somewhere and it is always about to go somewhere.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Doe
  • Capitalism
  • Wallets

• In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.

  

  Allen W. Wood
  • Reality
  • Capitalism
  • Defend

• The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask – obviously – but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.

  

  Paul Kane
  • Face
  • Capitalism
  • Mask

• ...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.

  

  Arnold Beichman
  • Reality
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism

• There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the matter is that he's going to have to face up to this at some time or another, and South Carolina is as good a place to draw that line in the sand as any.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Done
  • Problem
  • President

• Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Christianity
  • Built

• In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

  

  Nouriel Roubini
  • Capitalism
  • Crises
  • Norm

• The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Genius
  • Capitalism
  • Self-Interest

• One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals.

  

  Arthur Demarest
  • Leadership
  • Goals
  • Consequences

• The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Power
  • Rich
  • Poor

• I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

  

  Tim Scott
  • Problem
  • Socialism
  • Mantra

• Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Humans
  • Sacrifice
  • Bloody

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