Capitalist Society Quotes
34 quotes by 27 authors
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It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by…
— Giorgio Armani
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When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their…
— Ayn Rand
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
— Milton Friedman
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All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party…
— Leon Trotsky
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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
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To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way…
— Jane Fonda
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The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
— Albert Einstein
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Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
— James Connolly
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The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
— Karl Marx
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People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by…
— Jason Read
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Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization…
— Peter Drucker
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It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention,…
— Mary McCarthy
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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
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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
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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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We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire…
— Frank Schaeffer
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
— Vladimir Lenin
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In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff…
— Vladimir Lenin
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