Capitalism Quote by Hilaire Belloc

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become…

— Walter E. Williams

Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the…

— Ayn Rand

“The peasants and workers of Europe (and eventually the inhabitants of the whole world) paid a huge price so that the capitalists could make…

— Walter Rodney

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.

— Zygmunt Bauman

“Where was innovation to come from? We have argued that innovation comes from new people with new ideas, developing new solutions to old problems.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should…

— Fernand Braudel

The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For…

— Jacob Bronowski

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all…

— Karl Marx

“Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating "surplus value,"…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought to be reinvested in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and…

— Henry George

The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a…

— Mao Zedong