Capitalism Quotes · Page 94

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a…

— Muhammad Yunus

My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better…

— Bernie Sanders

The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was…

— Jim Stanford

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon…

— Ludwig von Mises

If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital…

— John Maynard Keynes

Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it…

— David Korten

The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural…

— Amory Lovins

“communism is all about realizing the productive potential labor for the whole of society, not just the non-laboring minority. It is, essentially,…

— Anonymous

“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of…

— Leon Trotsky

“Nothing is more evident than that modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both…

— Julius Evola

Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the…

— Saul Williams

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the…

— Barbara Tuchman

“Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“I’m quoting, so pardon the sexist language, but somewhere or other he said: socialism is an effort to try to solve man’s…

— Noam Chomsky

“Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal,…

— Carne Ross

“Old McDonald had a restaurant, E, I, E, I, O, And in that restaurant was some beef, E, I, E, I, O,…

— Harry Whitewolf

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the…

— Simone Weil

“This points to a nagging and important question about free-market ideologues: Are they ‘true believers’, driven by ideology and faith that free…

— Naomi Klein

“Conscious evolution of the free enterprise system happens when we realize that neither the heavy handedness of government nor the greed of…

— Said Elias Dawlabani

“It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I…

— Cornel West

Capitalism does what it does and money doesn't belong to anybody. It just stays in someone's wallet for a while, then it…

— Henry Rollins

“They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better…

— Edward Abbey

“It was in the wake of these erosions of economic controls that intellectual challenges were then made to the role of government…

— Thomas Sowell

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society…

— Karl Marx

“There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out…

— Walter Rodney

The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under…

— Serge Lang

My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's…

— Kirkpatrick Sale

To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man…

— Erich Fromm

“There were endless bodies of passengers wearing different colors of clothes, carrying handbags, and electronic devices of different sizes and shapes, giving…

— Louis Yako

What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where…

— John Mackey

Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own…

— John C. Bogle

When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and…

— Rick Perry

The left does not like self-reliance and individuality and the disparities in wealth and income that result. So the left has targeted…

— Rush Limbaugh

“When I heard Zizek’s statement, I have to admit that I reacted strongly against it. For the first twenty-five years of my…

— Vaddhaka Linn

The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively…

— Al Gore

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small…

— Anonymous

Thing for masses does not have a soul. Everything for masses is designed for stamped people with wooden heads. Wood is not…

— Ilkin Santak