As someone from the working class I was always interested…

The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.…

— William Henry Pickering

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way…

— Karl Marx

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

— James Cook

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become…

— Robert Kuttner

When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty…

— Nikita Khrushchev

“Capitalist cycle of profit. The rancher sells a cow for profit. The butcher sells cuts for profit. The restaurant sells meals for profit. And…

— Jarod Kintz

For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening…

— John Bellamy Foster

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

— Janet Yellen

Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling…

— Murray Bookchin

... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,…

— Davis McCaughey

When you come from a family of communists and you go through your teenage rebellion, what's the best way of rebelling from a family…

— Bill Browder

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

— Joel Achenbach

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

— George Orwell

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to…

— Cyril Connolly

It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely…

— Matt Taibbi