Capitalism Quote by Thomas Piketty

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

— Karl Kraus

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market…

— Satish Kumar

Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

— Ha-Joon Chang

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

“America needs a pure democracy; absolutely free of both communism and capitalism”

— Leland Lewis

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

— David Korten

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

— Joseph Sobran

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well,…

— Michael Moore

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

— Stefan Molyneux

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without…

— Peter L. Berger

“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their…

— Noam Chomsky