Capitalism Quotes

1122 Capitalism quotes by 511 unique authors

What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live… — Karl Hess
Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural… — Donna J. Haraway
Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of… — Raghuram Rajan
Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the… — Stephen Bayley
Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise… — Arthur C. Brooks
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. — C L R James
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism.… — Roger Lowenstein
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question:… — Lauren F. Winner
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing… — Yvon Chouinard
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures. — Terry Eagleton
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. — Terry Eagleton
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the… — Larry Elder
Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their… — Unknown Author
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does… — Richard Stallman
Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your… — Jim Rohn
Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California,… — P.J. O'Rourke
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern… — Karl Hess
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny… — George Orwell
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power… — Robert Kuttner
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation… — George Will
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes are… — Robert Kuttner
Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists,… — Molly Ivins
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. — Hakim Bey
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ...… — John Berger

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