Capitalism Quotes · Page 63

For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience.

— Jess Phillips

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses…

— Wole Soyinka

'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic…

— Frank Rich

The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes…

— Karan Mahajan

Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds,…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by…

— Earl Browder

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

“These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences…

— Milton Friedman

Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those…

— Vida Goldstein

For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked…

— Bill O'Reilly

“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who…

— Richard Branson

Free-market capitalism doesn't pick economic winners and losers based on the president's economic nostalgia, and limited-government conservatism isn't marked a top-down ideological…

— Rick Wilson

If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism's carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end…

— Paul Craig Roberts

I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think…

— Charlie Munger

You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative.…

— John Mackey

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the…

— Anonymous

Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary…

— Hugo Chavez

“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naïve as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no…

— Yuval Noah Harari

When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we…

— Carroll Quigley

We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning…

— Patricia Aburdene

“George Bernard Shaw once said: “Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Nowadays… deals are transactional rather than personal. Instead of placing your faith in a person, you get lawyers to write safeguards into…

— Jonathan Sacks

“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the…

— Christopher Hitchens

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

— George Bernard Shaw

I haven't seen any healthy ideology trying to change the world. It doesn't need to change the world; those who change the…

— Ilkin Santak

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's…

— Fran Lebowitz

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving…

— John Desmond Bernal

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful…

— Havelock Ellis

The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism.

— Frank Underhill

Early in the Obama administration, our economic team faced intense pressure to go down the road of coercive capitalism.

— Brian Deese

I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my…

— Renata Salecl

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other.…

— Owen D. Young

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

— Winston Churchill

“He was never entirely sure what financial services meant. It seemed to cover a spectrum from innocent to guilty and then extremely…

— Kate Atkinson

The unambigious fact is that U.S. capitalism is a mechanism for looting the many for the benefit of the few.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the…

— Matt Haig

In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.

— Paul Craig Roberts

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

— Honore de Balzac