Capitalist Quotes

381 Capitalist quotes by 247 unique authors

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. — Simone de Beauvoir
There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way… — Reinhold Niebuhr
When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything. — Nikita Khrushchev
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the… — Barbara Tuchman
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack… — Daniel De Leon
During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in… — Steven Rattner
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the… — George Saunders
I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting… — Sanford I. Weill
If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but… — Joseph James Ettor
If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class… — Bill Haywood
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by… — Ernest Mandel
Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore. — Lech Walesa
That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers… — Gerhard Richter
I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now… — Gerhard Richter
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture"… — David Riesman
The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The… — Che Guevara
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. — David Korten
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the… — Mary Douglas
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and… — Emily Greene Balch

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