Capitalism Quote by Walter Benjamin Download Open image “Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.” — Walter Benjamin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalism Economics Extremes Inspirational Love Religion
Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and… — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
“The problem with capitalism is that "we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible." And that's dangerous, he warns - "we're not… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ --… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is astonishingly efficient at generating new wealth, but it operates beneficently only when the market is shaped by moral forces coming from both… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,' I mean… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. — Allan H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as have scarcely… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively to man. One might, for example, speak of an unforgettable life or moment even if all men had forgotten it. If the nature of such a life or moment required that it be unforgotten, that predicate would not… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.” — David L. Weimer Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“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 of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists” — John Ruskin Copy Share
![“Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy…” quote by Joseph Stalin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/411/joseph-stalin-1734_capitalism_neither-italian-fascism-nor-german-natio_1430.jpg)
