Capitalist Quotes · Page 11

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy.

— Herbert Hoover

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

— James Connolly

There's a lot of individual credit and blame in a capitalist society.

— Jane O'Meara Sanders

The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.

— Karl Marx

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

— Benjamin Disraeli

While capitalist countries have more inequality - they also have more wealth overall.

— Dan Bongino

“The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital.”

— Neil Postman

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

— Ludwig von Mises

The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward…

— Joel Achenbach

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking…

— Amory Lovins

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

— Ayn Rand

The capitalist system is out of control. Everybody should be their own leader. In our own lives and families and neighbourhoods, we…

— Manu Chao

We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool…

— Liz Truss

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon…

— Kenneth O. Morgan

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from…

— Joseph Stalin

In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers…

— Richard A. Falk

The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a…

— Rosa Luxemburg

For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what…

— Matt Taibbi

Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden…

— Friedrich Engels

The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social…

— Emma Goldman

That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to…

— Michael Arrington

“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.”

— Alexandre Dumas

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

— Philip Green

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Just finished [Capitalist in North Korea]—fascinating! What an experience. Wow.”

— Justin Rohrlich Emmy Award Winner Head Writer Minyanville's World In Review

I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist.

— Dick Clark

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

— Karl Marx

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

— George Soros

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

— Peter Drucker

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

— Jenny Hval

The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

— Cornel West

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

— Raymond Williams

I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really - I like enterprise and making money.

— Steph McGovern

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

— Lee Klein

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

— Gregor Strasser

“There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies…

— Amadeo Bordiga

“A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought to be…

— Yuval Noah Harari