Capitalist Quotes

381 quotes by 255 authors

The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The… — Ludwig von Mises
In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not… — Ludwig von Mises
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely… — Ludwig von Mises
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. — Albert Camus
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a… — Lewis H. Lapham
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease. — Immanuel Wallerstein
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. — Immanuel Wallerstein
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future. — Pablo Picasso
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point… — Immanuel Wallerstein
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the… — 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 their… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and the… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to… — Amy Ridenour
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas… — Vinton Cerf
Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon. — Adam Osborne
At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. — Benjamin Disraeli

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