Capitalism Quotes · Page 64

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at…

— Paul Kane

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really…

— Thomas Peterffy

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly…

— Vladimir Lenin

Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free…

— Malala Yousafzai

“I use “socialism” because technically it is the best word to indicate a range of technologies that rely on social interactions for…

— Kevin Kelly

I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United States.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the…

— Edwin Markham

Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green'…

— Murray Bookchin

Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the…

— William O. Douglas

Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of…

— Stephen Young

“Capitalism has come, not only to serve Britain's purpose by keeping the people divided, but, by setting worker against worker, it has…

— Michael Collins

“My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good…

— Marek Edelman

The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime…

— Pope Francis

The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're…

— Naomi Klein

It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice…

— Kenneth Cloke

Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It…

— Errico Malatesta

Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer…

— Roger Lowenstein

“The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we…

— Neil Postman

“It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted ……

— Thomas Pynchon

“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which…

— William F. Buckley Jr

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“In our time, the world created by the Enlightenment is strong, active, and exuberant. For a while in the past century, socialists…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

— Alec Baldwin

The 'free market' is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a…

— Owen Jones

“It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you…

— Barry Unsworth

“Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

— James Grant

“The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck”

— Richard Swift

I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's…

— Brunello Cucinelli

Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens.

— Ilkin Santak

If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment…

— Simon Mainwaring

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing…

— Gustav Stresemann

If we looked in the world of 1945 and looked at the map of capitalist economies and democratic polities, they were the…

— Ashraf Ghani

It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of…

— William Randolph Hearst

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

— Ha-Joon Chang

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

— Judy Collins

They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

— Sean O'Grady