Capitalism Quotes · Page 65

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

— Terry Eagleton

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

— Stephen Young

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

— Gregor Strasser

There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led…

— Fareed Zakaria

Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into…

— Julius Streicher

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that…

— Karel Capek

Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.

— Kshama Sawant

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

— Paul Hawken

The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000…

— Carly Fiorina

“This concern for those left behind by the rise of what Pope Francis calls a “savage capitalism” is perhaps the defining mission…

— Simone Campbell

... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near…

— Warren Buffett

The NBA has prided itself on free expression. Its players and owners have a well-earned reputation for speaking out on social justice…

— Ben Sasse

Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not…

— Molly Ivins

I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are…

— Zadie Smith

“The king who deals harshly with merchants who come from afar closes the door of well-being upon the whole of his subjects.…

— Saadi

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly…

— Volkmar Sigusch

“As far back as 1922, Ludwig von Mises wrote a 500-page treatise predicting that socialism would not work. Socialist theorists, he wrote,…

— David Horowitz

So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism,…

— Deng Xiaoping

The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less…

— Slavoj Žižek

Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even…

— Noam Chomsky

People are interested in authentic long-term, socialist goals, which is not what is usually called socialism. They should be thinking through carefully…

— Noam Chomsky

It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and…

— Amber Hollibaugh

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like,…

— David Harvey

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

— Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in…

— Richard Branson

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

— Fareed Zakaria

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand…

— Ayn Rand

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

— George Washington

The ultimate credo of capitalism is to exploit people. It's not like this is just an incidental problem; it's inherent in the…

— Boots Riley

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

— Murray Bookchin

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

— Ha-Joon Chang

The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book…

— Morgan Philpot

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

— Raymond Williams

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

— Peter Drucker

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

— Christopher Hampton

Capitalism, in contrast, has existed for fewer than 300 years. If the entire history of Homo sapiens was a 24-hour day, then…

— Jim Stanford

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.

— Felix Frankfurter