Capitalism Quote by Renata Salecl

Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity

— Sigmund Freud

“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results…

— Charles Moore

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

— Janet Yellen

“Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening…

— John Bellamy Foster

Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense…

— Ludwig von Mises

“For capitalism to work, we all need one another.”

— Elizabeth Warren

Now, you might say – “But why should we pay people for doing what they’re supposed to do?” It’s a fair question – but…

— Michael Bloomberg

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

“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre…

— John Ruskin

“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.”

— David L. Weimer

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

— Anatoly Chubais

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

— Alan Greenspan

Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.

— Rupert Murdoch