Becoming Quote by Paul Lafargue

One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the power to…

— Renata Salecl

It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity…

— Karl Marx

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

— Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

— Johan Norberg

In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to…

— Bill Gates

“It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while at the…

— Karl Marx

“Economic insatiability is as old as money itself, but it has been greatly exacerbated by the institutions of capitalism. Today, it is the business…

— Edward Skidelsky Robert Skidelsky

“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who make money…

— Richard Branson

“within the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productiveness of labour are brought about at the cost of the individual labourer; all…

— Karl Marx

Capitalism created the possibility of employment.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“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