Quotes about Capitalism

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism. Votes: 5

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. Votes: 5

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods. Votes: 5

Capitalism is an art form. Votes: 4

Fascism is capitalism in decay. Votes: 4

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. Votes: 4

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Votes: 4

Capitalism needs war. Votes: 3

Capitalism is in crisis. Votes: 3

Capitalism begins with giving. Votes: 3

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage. Votes: 3

Capitalism is destroying the earth. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place. Votes: 3

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace. Votes: 3

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the key to survival. Votes: 3

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism. Votes: 3

We need a break from Capitalism, Votes: 3

Capitalism created the possibility of employment. Votes: 3

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity Votes: 3

Capitalism without capital is just an ism. Votes: 3

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. Votes: 3

Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Catholicism without Hell. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system Votes: 3

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. Votes: 3

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. Votes: 3

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. Votes: 3

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system. Votes: 3

Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism. Votes: 3

Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the most powerful tool for positive social change. Votes: 3

Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals Votes: 3

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself. Votes: 3

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work. Votes: 3

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a funny name which lefties give to basic freedom. Votes: 3

Capitalism is an ability to stay rich and keep getting rich. Votes: 3

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained. Votes: 3

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist. Votes: 3

Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy. Votes: 3

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. Votes: 3

Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it. Votes: 3

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits. Votes: 3

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords. Votes: 3

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. Votes: 3

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility. Votes: 3

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress. Votes: 3

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist. Votes: 3

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works. Votes: 3

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed. Votes: 3

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin. Votes: 3

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away. Votes: 3

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism. Votes: 3

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism Votes: 3

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism Votes: 3

Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it. Votes: 3

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. Votes: 3

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse. Votes: 3

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work. Votes: 3

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome. Votes: 3

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital. Votes: 3

Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism Votes: 3

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity. Votes: 3

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy. Votes: 3

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. Votes: 3

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. Votes: 3

But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism! Votes: 3

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created. Votes: 3

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. Votes: 3

Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future. Votes: 3

Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives. Votes: 3

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude. Votes: 3

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty. Votes: 3

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. Votes: 3

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook. Votes: 3

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook Votes: 3

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. Votes: 3

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism. Votes: 3

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism. Votes: 3

Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies. Votes: 3

Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market. Votes: 3

Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few. Votes: 3

Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves. Votes: 3

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes. Votes: 3

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. Votes: 3

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity. Votes: 3

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people. Votes: 3

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change. Votes: 3

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. Votes: 3

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold. Votes: 3

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. Votes: 3

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism. Votes: 3

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. Votes: 3

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. Votes: 3

Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either. Votes: 3

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park. Votes: 3

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other. Votes: 3

Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it. Votes: 3

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. Votes: 3

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. Votes: 3

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work. Votes: 3

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. Votes: 3

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. Votes: 3

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it, Votes: 3

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective. Votes: 3

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital. Votes: 3

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system. Votes: 3

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged. Votes: 3

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits. Votes: 3

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. Votes: 3

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings. Votes: 3

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons. Votes: 3

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. Votes: 3

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. Votes: 3

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated. Votes: 3

The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. Votes: 3

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future Votes: 3

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all. Votes: 3

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important. Votes: 3

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. Votes: 3

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants Votes: 3

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. Votes: 3

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Votes: 3

Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. Votes: 3

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. Votes: 3

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Votes: 3

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. Votes: 3

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. Votes: 3

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Votes: 3

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. Votes: 3

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child. Votes: 3

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so. Votes: 3

I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell. Votes: 3

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. Votes: 3

In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule. Votes: 3

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. Votes: 3

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings. Votes: 3

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served. Votes: 3

Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Votes: 3

The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself. Votes: 2

If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism. Votes: 2

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Votes: 2

Vicisti, O Aspidistra! Votes: 1

Fascism is capitalism plus murder. Votes: 1

Hunger justifies the middle classes. Votes: 1

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids. Votes: 1

Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny. Votes: 1

Colonialism is the mother of terrorism. Votes: 1

You can't have capitalism without racism. Votes: 1

If everyone stopped pretendingcapitalism would drop dead Votes: 1

American corporate capitalism is a murder-suicide mission. Votes: 1

Fascism is when corporations become the government. Votes: 1

...there's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism. Votes: 1

The possessions of the rich are stolen property Votes: 1

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money. Votes: 1

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. Votes: 1

the decisive movement toward corporate capitalism began in 1895-1896. Votes: 1

Why do you accept being treated like an inmate? Votes: 1

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures. Votes: 1

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival. Votes: 1

Market economy favors the have against the have not Votes: 1

For capitalism to work, we all need one another. Votes: 1

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life. Votes: 1

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes Votes: 1

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool. Votes: 1

If you want a job making toys, move to China. Votes: 1

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress. Votes: 1

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid. Votes: 1

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. Votes: 1

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy. Votes: 1

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims. Votes: 1

Every capitalist is rich, but every rich is not a capitalist. Votes: 1

The doctrine of laisser-faire will not work in the material world. Votes: 1

Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial Votes: 1

Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another. Votes: 1

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. Votes: 1

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy. Votes: 1

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... Votes: 1

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty. Votes: 1

They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash. Votes: 1

As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers. Votes: 1

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. Votes: 1

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism? Votes: 1

Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie. Votes: 1

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. Votes: 1

Inflationism is that monetary policy that seeks to increase the quantity of money. Votes: 1

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce. Votes: 1

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me. Votes: 1

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Votes: 1

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this. Votes: 1

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity Votes: 1

China's success lies on being a communist community within and a capitalist company outside. Votes: 1

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future. Votes: 1

You see man we are just fucking extras!! Extras in a capitalist blockbuster!~page 75 Votes: 1

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. Votes: 1

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. Votes: 1

When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars. Votes: 1

Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Votes: 1

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. Votes: 1

Europe is made of history,America of philosophy,Asia of prosperity,and Africa of opportunity. Votes: 1

Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal. Votes: 1

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. Votes: 1

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. Votes: 1

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. Votes: 1

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice. Votes: 1

Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own. Votes: 1

Juliet is so beautiful," Mr. Buckmaster agreed, "that her being a maid is a reflection on capitalism. Votes: 1

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. Votes: 1

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that. Votes: 1

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ? Votes: 1

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s. Votes: 1

The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it. Votes: 1

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. Votes: 1

...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling. Votes: 1

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like. Votes: 1

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? Votes: 1

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. Votes: 1

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud. Votes: 1

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government. Votes: 1

the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens Votes: 1

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012] Votes: 1

Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations. Votes: 1

Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed? Votes: 1

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. Votes: 1

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet. Votes: 1

Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906] Votes: 1

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. Votes: 1

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it. Votes: 1

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted. Votes: 1

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself. Votes: 1

The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power. Votes: 1

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. Votes: 1

In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands. Votes: 1

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Votes: 1

The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange. Votes: 1

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent. Votes: 1

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth. Votes: 1

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid. Votes: 1

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism. Votes: 1

The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck Votes: 1

Marx himself wrote that capitalism produces above all its own gravediggers. Do you think that perhaps he wasn't talking about capitalism? Votes: 1

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? Votes: 1

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. Votes: 1

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless. Votes: 1

[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job. Votes: 1

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets Votes: 1

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences Votes: 1

Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two. Votes: 1

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed. Votes: 1

To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses. Votes: 1

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. Votes: 1

Naive inflationism demands an increase in the quantity of money without suspecting that this will diminish the purchasing power of the money. Votes: 1

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them. Votes: 1

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you. Votes: 1

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. Votes: 1

The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism. Votes: 1

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers. Votes: 1

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it. Votes: 1

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats... Votes: 1

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined. Votes: 1

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop. Votes: 1

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to an expensive school? Votes: 1

If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident. Votes: 1

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government. Votes: 1

Antiliberals endlessly berate their enemies for "instrumental thinking." But they do not clearly explain the evil of producing better goods at a lower cost. Votes: 1

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible. Votes: 1

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor? Votes: 1

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us. Votes: 1

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present? Votes: 1

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft Votes: 1

[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment [...]. Votes: 1

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system. Votes: 1

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. Votes: 1

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. Votes: 1

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness. Votes: 1

The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings Votes: 1

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain. Votes: 1

I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not.-Uncle John Votes: 1

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it Votes: 1

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money. Votes: 1

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people. Votes: 1

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid? Votes: 1

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. Votes: 1

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies. Votes: 1

Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism. Votes: 1

The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen. Votes: 1

In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse. Votes: 1

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream Votes: 1

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions? Votes: 1

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth. Votes: 1

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege. Votes: 1

Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand. Votes: 1

America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time Votes: 1

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them. Votes: 1

The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity. Votes: 1

The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish. Votes: 1

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit. Votes: 1

Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada). Votes: 1

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. Votes: 1

The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few. Votes: 1

Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology. Votes: 1

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end. Votes: 1

Inflation made it possible to divert the fury of the people to 'speculators' and 'profiteers'. Thus it proved itself an excellent psychological resource of the destructive and annihilist war policy. Votes: 1

The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven towards the abolition of private property. Votes: 1

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. Votes: 1

Capitalist cycle of profit. The rancher sells a cow for profit. The butcher sells cuts for profit. The restaurant sells meals for profit. And the patrons spend money for profit. Votes: 1

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool. Votes: 1

We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics. Votes: 1

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth. Votes: 1

If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin,and the coin tossedinto the sky,the coin will spin,the coin will flutter,but the eagle will never fly. Votes: 1

But when States did debase the coinage, it was always from purely fiscal motives. The government needed financial help, that was all; it was not concerned with questions of currency policy. Votes: 1

Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing more capital that functionally needed, they debase everything capitalism stands for. Votes: 1

Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals; and the extent to which any given factor influences these subjective estimates can never be predicted. Votes: 1

Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were expected to rise for the sake of others, in America. Votes: 1

It is not the poverty of individuals and the community, not indebtedness to foreign nations, not the unfavourableness of the conditions of production, that force up the rate of exchange, but inflation. Votes: 1

The balance-of-payments theory forgets that the volume of foreign trade is completely dependent upon prices; that neither exportation nor importation can occur if there are no differences in prices to make trade profitable. Votes: 1

The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew. Votes: 1

Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease. Votes: 1

The essence of modern capitalism is not slavery of the antique pattern but the possession of the expensive tools of production by a small plutocratic group which controls frequently the tools of persuasion. Votes: 1

The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they damn well please. Votes: 1

We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverseknowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanentconstruction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, socialexposure). Votes: 1

Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolute contradictions and crises. Votes: 1

Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?""Capitalists," said Anna. Votes: 1

In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it. Votes: 1

Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . . Votes: 1

The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh. Votes: 1

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size. Votes: 1

If socialism failed, it was for political, more than economic, reasons; and if capitalism is to succeed it will be because it finds the political will and means to tame its economic forces. Votes: 1

Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form of gambling. Votes: 1

There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre. Votes: 1

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism. Votes: 1

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning. Votes: 1

Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings. Votes: 1

With an evermore increase of industrialisation machine stops being merely a tool, develops a life of its own and imposes its rhythm onto human. Operating it he moves mechanically, becomes part of the machine. Votes: 1

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it. Votes: 1

It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself. Votes: 1

the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility Votes: 1

Hence, the statement that the cost of living is different in different localities only means that the same individual cannot secure the same degree of satisfaction from the same stock of goods in different places. Votes: 1

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it. Votes: 1

But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity? Votes: 1

Copyright: a system of monopoly privilege over the expression of ideas that enables government to stop consumer-friendly economic development and reward uncompetitive and legally privileged elites to fleece the public through surreptitious use of coercion. Votes: 1

Restrictionistic ideas have never met with any measure of popular sympathy except after a time of monetary depreciation when it has been necessary to decide what should take the place of the abandoned inflationary policy. Votes: 1

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good Votes: 1

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism. Votes: 1

I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process. Votes: 1

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem. Votes: 1

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production. Votes: 1

My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they were little instead of that American manifesto of high-pressure sales, Green Eggs and Ham... Votes: 1

One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the same. Votes: 1

...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertisements offering to teach writing, cartooning, engineering, to add inches to the biceps and to develop the bust Votes: 1

The absence of the State is not a lacking of governance or a social safety net, but rather the presence of a beautiful spontaneous order whose efficacy and humanitarian output could never be paralleled by central fiat. Votes: 1

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game. Votes: 1

Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence. Votes: 1

... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.... Votes: 1

For hundreds, even thousands, of years, people completely failed to see that variations in the objective exchange-value of money could be induced by monetary factors. They tried to explain all variations of prices exclusively from the commodity side. Votes: 1

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised. Votes: 1

The marketplace is an institution that teaches self-advancement, private acquisition, and the domination of nature. Its way of thinking is incompatible with the round river. Ecological harmony is a nonmarket value that takes a collective will to achieve. Votes: 1

In the case of money, subjective use-value and subjective exchange-value coincide. Both are derived from objective exchange-value, for money has no utility other than that arising from the possibility of obtaining other economic goods in exchange for it. Votes: 1

Advertising expresses a power relationship . . . One person, the advertiser, invades; millions absorb. And to what end? So that people will buy something! A deep, profound and disturbing act by the few against the many for a trivial purpose. Votes: 1

The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves the bill for us to pay, then boasts about how productive and efficient it is and complains about our wasteful government. Votes: 1

The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful. Votes: 1

Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home, the one that makes their waste disappear in a whirlpool into the socialized sewage treatment plant. Votes: 1

Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself. Votes: 1

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government Votes: 1

When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money. Votes: 1

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. Votes: 1

Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. We are not fighting to tinker with reforming a system that needs to be replaced. Votes: 1

...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature. Votes: 1

This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products Votes: 1

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism Votes: 1

The first value of money was clearly the value which the goods used as money possessed (thanks to their suitability for satisfying human wants in other ways) at the moment when they were first used as common media of exchange. Votes: 1

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state which first makes conflict unavoidable and permanent. Votes: 1

Capitalism is not merely a system for the efficient production and distribution of goods and services; it also incarnates and promotes a particular moral order, an institutionalized normative worldview comprising and fostering particular assumptions, narratives, commitments, beliefs, values, and goals. Votes: 1

Market forces which are driven by self indulgent needs designing the ultimate human experiences such as intimacy, love, solidarity and commitment as not enough and no longer needed, resulting in an ongoing emptiness and on the illusion of endless enjoyment. Votes: 1

Spray a bug with a toxin and it dies; spray a man, spray his brain, and he becomes an insect that clacks and vibrates about in a closed circle forever. A reflex machine, like an ant. Repeating his last instruction. Votes: 1

The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere or other, splits at the joints? Votes: 1

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card player wins money by outsmarting his antagonist. The businessman makes money by supplying customers with goods they want to acquire. Votes: 1

Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence. Votes: 1

Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important. Votes: 1

Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie. Votes: 1

To Pierre," said Mr. Buckmaster, "the Communists are of the Right. The far Right. He refers to them as 'those goddamned Bourbons.' Pierre is an anarchist. That's why he's so happy in his shoplifting--he feels it helps undermine the state. Votes: 1

I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness. Votes: 1

All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product. If he does not, some one else will. Votes: 1

By 'the objective exchange-value of money' we are accordingly to understand the possibility of obtaining a certain quantity of other economic goods in exchange for a given quantity of money; and by 'the price of money' this actual quantity of other goods. Votes: 1

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning. Votes: 1

I think we're moving toward a world where all the consumers under a certain age will probably tend to identify more with their consumer status or with the products they consume then they would with ... any sort of antiquated notion of nationality. Votes: 1

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism. Votes: 1

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient. Votes: 1

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless. Votes: 1

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. Votes: 1

In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition! Votes: 1

The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that. Votes: 1

We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and the president had better get it for us, or else, we don't care how. Votes: 1

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. Votes: 1

In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production, and that absurdity would, by quickly ending all human lives save those of the owners, put a term to the arrangement. Votes: 1

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. Votes: 1

These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago. Votes: 1

Nowadays the job of the judge is not to do justice. The judge is more of a functionary . He's like a civil servant whose job is to interpret words written down by another branch of the government, whether those words are just or not. Votes: 1

Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement--however serious, however trifling--all dance to one identical tune, and, in spite of our ridiculous activity, bring nothing finally to pass. Votes: 1

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. Votes: 1

Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. It isn't the young who corrupt the old, rather it's the inverse.The aim of the old should be to ensure that the young grow up incorruptible. Votes: 1

If inanimate objects are left to stand in their world, and are not invited out to mingle with our sense of self, they will quietly console and delight us. But to bind possessions up closely with the mind is less than fair to both. Votes: 1

It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint. Votes: 1

A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, "Get a boat! Votes: 1

The moneyprice of any commodity in any place, under the assumption of completely unrestricted exchange and disregarding the differences arising from the time taken in transit, must be the same as the price at any other place, augmented or diminished by the money-cost of transport. Votes: 1

When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money. Votes: 1

...capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond those characteristic of modern economics. That is why this is a history not of economic ideas, but of ideas beyond the capitalist economy. Votes: 1

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison. Votes: 1

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor. Votes: 1

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism. Votes: 1

How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production? Votes: 1

If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism. Votes: 1

If time could run backward, like a film in reverse, we would see this mess reassemble itself into lush green hills and moss-covered ledges of limestone. The streams would run back up the hills to the springs and the salt would stay glittering in underground rooms. Votes: 1

He who cares to go to the trouble of demonstrating the uselessness of index numbers for monetary theory and the concrete tasks of monetary policy will be able to select a good proportion of his weapons from the writings of the very men who invented them. Votes: 1

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 Votes: 1

Well, first you will have to eat again, not just like you Earth people do, but the corvalen, one dose is not enough. And once you start down that path, you want more, you need more, and then there is the end of your peaceful life. Votes: 1

To Jurgis the packers had been the equivalent to fate; Ostrinski showed him that they were the Beef Trust. They were a gigantic combination of capital, which had crushed all opposition, and overthrown the laws of the land, and was preying upon the people. Chapter 29, pg. 376 Votes: 1

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. Votes: 1

This is the fly in the ointment of free-market capitalism. It cannot ensure that profits are gained in a fair way, or distributed in a fair manner. On the contrary, the craving to increase profits and production blinds people to anything that might stand in the way. Votes: 1

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. Votes: 1

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs. Votes: 1

This generation - it's almost a religious thing now. The millennium, the end days, no need to be responsible anymore to the future. A burden has been lifted from them. The Baby Jesus is managing the portfolio of earthly affairs, and nobody begrudges Him the carried interest... Votes: 1

But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly? Votes: 1

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. Votes: 1

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers? Votes: 1

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees. Votes: 1

The aim was to regulate the value of money by increasing or diminishing the quantity of it. The effects of these measures appeared to provide an inductive proof of the correctness of this superficial version of the Quantity Theory, and incidentally concealed the weaknesses of its logic. Votes: 1

The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish Votes: 1

Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environmentalism. The differences in degree are so great that they result in a radical difference in kind. Votes: 1

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people. Votes: 1

Forty-five years, these people were provided for. Not with much, you understand, but there weren't beggars in the streets or homeless people. Now everyone must figure out a new way to make a living. Selling hats or popcorn or flowers or coffee, there's not much difference. They're scared. Votes: 1

I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global. Votes: 1

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Votes: 1

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day that shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole... Votes: 1

One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the "ultimate weapon," and only hope that those who seek a more free and just world will not gain the same understanding and put it effectively to use. Votes: 1

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich. Votes: 1

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power. Votes: 1

By making our defenseless planet the ultimate beneficiary of our economic activity, we align our values with a different set of motivations. When we begin to see life as an interdependent mesh, we place the survival of the human species on equal footing with our economic interests and ourselves. Votes: 1

We're all prostitutes if you think about it. The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousness. You sell your body or you sell your mind, and the Cartesian mind/body thing is a fallacy anyway, your mind is just your brain, so it amounts to the same thing really. Votes: 1

I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business. Votes: 1

It [predatory capitalism] is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is antihuman and intolerable in the deepest sense. Votes: 1

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men. Votes: 1

In a society not characterised by class exploitation, the relationship between the processes of surplus-production and reproduction of labour-power is qualitatively distinct from that characterising societies in which exploitation dominates...surplus-labour is identified by the nature of its contribution to social reproduction, not by the fact that it is provately appropriated. Votes: 1

Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels, as well as a commitment to reorganizing society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires. Votes: 1

They did not suffer shipwreck because the entrepreneurs were not public-spirited, as the socialist-etatistic legend has it. They were bound to fail because the economic organization based upon division of labour and private property in the means of production can function only so long as price-determination in the market is free. Votes: 1

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty. Votes: 1

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. Votes: 1

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie. Votes: 1

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold. Votes: 1

For when the Law of Price declares that a good actually commands a particular price, and explains why it does so, it of course implies that the good is able to command this price, and explains why it is able to do so. The Law of Price comprehends the Law of Exchange-Value. Votes: 1

We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good. Votes: 1

A metallic money, the augmentation or diminution of the quantity of metal available for which is independent of deliberate human intervention, is becoming the modern monetary ideal. The significance of adherence to a metallic-money system lies in the freedom of the value of money from State influence that such a system guarantees. Votes: 1

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state. Votes: 1

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. Votes: 1

Capitalism is just a front lined big word people use to hide their ignorance in their sophisticated clothing. People have a full spectrum of words to snub their part of the problem to console that they are not the cause of a callous situation, so they cannot be a part of the solution. Votes: 1

Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore the nature of the human person against the avaricious dreams of the capitalists and the diabolical schemes of the national and international socialists, all of whom would replace God with man. Votes: 1

They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the market to disguise this fact. Economic coercion is just a different form of force, which they couple with the fraud of calling it freedom. I was like them, but I will never be like them again. Votes: 1

A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor. Votes: 1

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right. Votes: 1

The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior. Votes: 1

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system. Votes: 1

Fashion is capitalism's favourite child. Votes: 0

Reckless capitalism kills black people. Votes: 0

There's nothing pure about capitalism. Votes: 0

America is capitalism on steroids. Votes: 0

Fascism is capitalism plus murder Votes: 0

Fascism is capitalism in decay Votes: 0

We are capitalism made flesh. Votes: 0

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism. Votes: 0

Art is socialism but life is capitalism. Votes: 0

Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism. Votes: 0

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all. Votes: 0

War is capitalism with the gloves off. Votes: 0

Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis. Votes: 0

...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism. Votes: 0

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections. Votes: 0

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. Votes: 0

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction. Votes: 0

We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism. Votes: 0

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have. Votes: 0

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism, Votes: 0

Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can. Votes: 0