Capitalist Quote by Alex Kapranos

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

— Derrick Bell

What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

— Adam Bellow

There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the best results. It's a wrong and misguided belief…

— Mitch Kapor

“David Brooks, “Our Founding Yuppie,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word “meritocracy” is an argument-starter, and I have employed it sparingly in…

— Walter Isaacson

I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in my bed.…

— Odd Nerdrum

I am a believer in people succeeding on merit.

— Nicola Sturgeon

To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The…

— Albert Einstein

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

— Socrates

Nepotism, I feel, sometimes is a little over-hyped and sometimes very true.

— Sargun Mehta