Capitalist Market Quotes

#1. The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

Amory Lovins

#2. There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy on the biosphere and the imperatives of a capitalist market: maximum continuing growth in the search for profit.

Eric Hobsbawm

#3. We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

Learned Hand

#4. People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by bullies. But it's actually quite the contrary.

Ariana Grande

#5. She didn't show me that I was capable of love. She was the one who made me capable of love.

T.M. Frazier

#6. When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the market-place.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Lester Levenson

#8. There has to be a level of joy of what you're doing.

George R R Martin

#9. God will not be mocked.

Ezra Taft Benson

#10. We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.

Katy Lederer

#11. It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.

Liz Phair

#12. The advertising profession transformed the capitalist model of buyers making
rational choices in a free market into a consumerist model where the buyer was
driven by irrational emotions associated with particular brand names and/or
products.

Joel Spring

#13. He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

Karl Marx

#14. Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive.

Noam Chomsky

#15. Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

Kevin D. Williamson

#16. As the world becomes more digitalized, there are more entry points for hackers.

Michael Demon Calce

#17. He hath always but slightly, known himself ... King Lear

William Shakespeare

#18. Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.

Hilda Scott

#19. My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

David Korten

#20. I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.

Cliff Stearns

#21. I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.

Cassandra Clare

#23. I feel like I'm always on the go, I'm always on the run.

Danielle Panabaker

#24. There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

Dambisa Moyo

#25. In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.

Matt Taibbi