Capitalism Quotes

1122 Capitalism quotes by 511 unique authors

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will… — Henry Ford
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. — Walter Lippmann
Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are… — Eric Kierans
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would… — Unknown Author
The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money. — Linda McQuaig
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors. — Linda McQuaig
A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor. — Linda McQuaig
The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the… — Linda McQuaig
The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The… — Jim Stanford
For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of… — Linda McQuaig
Economics is really politics in disguise. — Hazel Henderson
If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want rich… — Jim Stanford
The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment… — Linda McQuaig
Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments.… — Arianna Huffington
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to… — Fredric Jameson
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. — Robert Heilbroner
I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are… — Rick Santorum
A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically… — Saul Alinsky
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of… — Kwame Nkrumah
It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the… — Kwame Nkrumah
Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity — Evo Morales
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based… — Errico Malatesta
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? — Ken MacLeod
Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all… — Julie Burchill

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