Capitalism Quotes · Page 93

After the rise of Thatcherism, the smashing of the trade unions, and the post-cold war sense that any alternative to free-market capitalism…

— Owen Jones

Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at…

— Joan Robinson

You'll find many markets where bottlers of Pepsi and Coke both make a lot of money and many others where they destroy…

— Charlie Munger

Clearly, for capitalism to work properly we must expect some upward normalisation of interest rates at some future point, to provide greater…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I…

— Cornel West

“Conscious evolution of the free enterprise system happens when we realize that neither the heavy handedness of government nor the greed of…

— Said Elias Dawlabani

“It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“This points to a nagging and important question about free-market ideologues: Are they ‘true believers’, driven by ideology and faith that free…

— Naomi Klein

Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an…

— Noam Chomsky

We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with…

— Irvine Welsh

The vitrines and shelves that I make, the objects displayed can be easily exchanged. This is a key to the work-the objects…

— Josephine Meckseper

Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his…

— Richard Foreman

You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;…

— Ludwig von Mises

State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the…

— James Connolly

“New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. If conservatives get to call universal health care "socialized medicine," I…

— Bill Maher

“Because there is nothing, nothing on Urras that we Anarresti need! We left with empty hands, a hundred and seventy years ago,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Old McDonald had a restaurant, E, I, E, I, O, And in that restaurant was some beef, E, I, E, I, O,…

— Harry Whitewolf

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the…

— Simone Weil

“I’m quoting, so pardon the sexist language, but somewhere or other he said: socialism is an effort to try to solve man’s…

— Noam Chomsky

“Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal,…

— Carne Ross

“Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the…

— Barbara Tuchman

Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the…

— Saul Williams

The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural…

— Amory Lovins

Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it…

— David Korten

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon…

— Ludwig von Mises

If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital…

— John Maynard Keynes

The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was…

— Jim Stanford

My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better…

— Bernie Sanders

Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst…

— Leonard Read

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a…

— Muhammad Yunus

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which…

— Milton Friedman

One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness…

— Thomas Sowell

“Just because capital has brought a thing inside itself doesn’t mean that thing can’t be threatening to it. I mean, it contains…

— Anonymous

Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and…

— Ayn Rand

Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the…

— Paul Craig Roberts

“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth?…

— John Burdett

Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what…

— Charlie Munger

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with…

— Abraham Lincoln