Ballots Quote by Ludwig von Mises

The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people.…

— Ludwig von Mises

The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent…

— Ludwig von Mises

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to…

— Thomas Sowell

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic…

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

— Hugo Chavez

We need to take a close look at the relationship between the economic system of Capitalism and the political system of Democracy. A democracy…

— Philip Kotler

“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.”

— Jerry Ash

“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass media to…

— Murray Bookchin

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Neoliberalism makes citizens into consumers. The freedom of the citizen yields to the passivity of the consumer. As consumers, today’s voters have no real…

— Byung-Chul Han

Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a…

— Bill Moyers

The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's…

— Dorothy L. Sayers