Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

— Charlie Munger

All socialism involves slavery.

— Herbert Spencer

No ideology could resist capital until now.

— Ilkin Santak

I am too serious to be a patriot.

— Ilkin Santak

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

— Lorne Michaels

I don't think capitalism can survive.

— Douglas Tompkins

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

— Upton Sinclair

Capitalism is destroying the earth.

— Helen Caldicott

You cannot have good capitalism without freedom. Each is strengthened by the other.

— Raphael Warnock

“The most radical act is sometimes to refuse to be hurried.”

— Lawrence Nault

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom

— Milton Friedman

“We measure wealth poorly if we forget the richness of time.”

— Lawrence Nault

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“If everyone stopped pretending capitalism would drop dead”

— Carl-John X Veraja

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

— Edward Heath

Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it.

— Ilkin Santak

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

— Max Lerner

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

— Ludwig von Mises

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

— Robert Kennedy

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

— James Dyson

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

— Peter L. Berger

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

— Boris Johnson

“There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will…

— Richard D. Wolff

“The effort to transform natural inequalities into social equality could only lead to greater, more brutal inequality; the socialist effort to transform…

— David Horowitz

The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of…

— Joan Robinson

Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but…

— Richard Branson

I have always favored Capitalism as the best economic system and Democracy as the best political system. They both have the most…

— Philip Kotler

Now Pope Francis on his overnight flight back to Italy explains how contraception can be justified. This is the pope, the Vicar…

— Rush Limbaugh

It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They…

— Ludwig von Mises

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution…

— George Bernard Shaw

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“The damage United Fruit had done to Latin America was beyond imaginable and, even as the Cavendish shift occurred, beyond healing. The…

— Dan Koeppel

“The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires…

— David Suzuki

“A credible communist threat would offer people another use for their accelerating abilities besides creating value for profiteers or trying to become…

— Anonymous

Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing…

— Anonymous

“There is a lot of talk about "rigged games" as of late. Big government is the most insipid of all "rigged games".…

— A.E. Samaan

“Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All existing art was religious until perhaps a hundred years ago. Within that there's obviously been lots of room for manipulation. I…

— Chitra Ganesh