Capitalist Quotes

#1. In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

Edmund Phelps

#2. One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.

Michael Moore

#3. If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

Henry L. Stimson

#4. This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#5. There are conservative values where certain lifestyles are imposed and everybody should have 2.4 children and a dog and a cat and a house and you should feel like God and you should believe in God and you should be a capitalist. I don't buy any of that.

Steve Coogan

#6. A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#7. I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.

Tyler Cowen

#8. If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad

Smedley Butler

#9. Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.

Vida Goldstein

#10. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#11. "Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

Nikita Khrushchev

#12. Often in my lectures when I use the phrase "imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy" to describe our nation's political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.

Bell Hooks

#13. There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Cristina Kirchner

#14. 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

#15. It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

Joan Robinson

#16. Only capitalists get photographers.

Stephen Sondheim

#17. I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.

John Caudwell

#18. The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice.

Henry Hazlitt

#19. Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

Mal Fletcher

#20. Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

Bernie Sanders

#21. We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.

Eugene V. Debs

#22. 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

#23. If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.

Evo Morales

#24. To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

Bobby Seale

#25. Nobody planned the global capitalist system, nobody runs it, and nobody really comprehends it. This particularly offends intellectuals, for capitalism renders them redundant. It gets on perfectly well without them.

Peter Saunders

#26. Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore, financially secure.

Louis O. Kelso

#27. Between the combination of Judeo-Christian religious 'be good be good be good' and Capitalist 'something's wrong with you, buy this' and the parental upbringing, which is 'you're wrong, you're not thin enough, you're not smart enough' I mean, hello! We don't have a shot.

Eve Ensler

#28. India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

Anil Agarwal

#29. Nowhere in Mark 16:15 - "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" [KJV] - nor in any similar Scripture did Christ command us to go only into the Western or capitalist world. Nowhere did He say to exclude the Communist world.

Billy Graham

#30. If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?

Joseph Stiglitz

#31. The capitalist shark breathes oil, but the ocean in which it swims is drying up.

Steve Hallett

#32. In 1890, Donnelly published Caesar's Column, a dystopian science fiction novel set in the far-off 1980s, when the United States had become a capitalist tyranny controlled by a ruthless Jewish oligarchy.

Arthur Goldwag

#33. Where's your warrant?" asked McGinty. "By Gar! a man might as well live in Russia as in Vermissa while folk like you are running the police. It's a capitalist outrage, and you'll hear more of it, I reckon.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#34. We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

Karl Marx

#35. So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

Karl Marx

#36. No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.

Harvey MacKay

#37. Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.

Rudolf Hiferding

#38. Euro-American colonialism, an aspect of the capitalist economic globalization, had from its beginnings a genocidal tendency.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#39. Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

Dean Smith

#40. The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

Joseph Goebbels

#41. Good God, is the man a heathen?'

'Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.

Melanie Jackson

#42. If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

Eben Moglen

#43. In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

Chuck Palahniuk

#44. The capitalist era is passing . . . not quickly, but inevitably.

Jeremy Rifkin

#45. 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.

Henry Ford

#46. Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

A.E. Samaan

#47. There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into sharp conflict with people's demands that their material and social needs should be fulfilled. Pg. 10

Walter Rodney

#48. It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Rudolf Hiferding

#49. Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

Steven Pinker

#50. Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Nawal El Saadawi

#51. It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

Ludwig Von Mises

#52. The banks own the corporations. In a capitalist society, the corporations have the most capital (money), and therefore they have the most influence. Presidential elections are funded by corporations, and in return the elected officials serve the interest of the corporations that supported them.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#53. You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

Alan Greenspan

#54. He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

Harold Macmillan

#55. In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

John Currin

#56. The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#57. Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

Bell Hooks

#58. You cannot be a good house in a rapidly deteriorating neighborhood. The credibility and the fair functioning of the neighborhood matter a great deal. Without that, the integrity of the capitalist system will weaken further".

Bernardo Kliksberg

#59. I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

Slavoj Zizek

#60. Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Leon Trotsky

#61. While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Karl Marx

#62. The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.

Helen Lawrenson

#63. The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

Muhammad Yunus

#64. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

George Soros

#65. In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.

John Lennon

#66. I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

Jack Kemp

#67. It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention.

Tim Wu

#68. I'm not a Communist. I'm an American. I'm a capitalist. I mean, I'm not a very good capitalist, myself. I'm not very good at it, but it's not that I'm not for capitalism. But people who believe in things like corporate citizenship, it's idiotic. I mean, it shows you're an idiot.

Fran Lebowitz

#69. I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#70. The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations

Kevin Carson

#71. There is no economic necessity for continuing the arms race after the World War, even from the standpoint of the capitalist class itself, with the exception of at most certain armaments interests.

Anonymous

#72. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#73. Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models
with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#74. Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument.

Karl Marx

#75. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed ... Trouble doesn't come from Slopes, Kikes, Niggers, Spics or White Capitalist Pigs; it comes from the heart.

P. J. O'Rourke

#76. The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Clara Zetkin

#77. There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#78. Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household ... In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP.

Jim Stanford

#79. As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

Luke Nosek

#80. There are two ways to make money in a capitalist, patriarchal setting:
1. Fuck other people over faster and more efficiently than they fuck you over.
2. Whore

Inga Muscio

#81. The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war ... by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation is to make the public aware of the way in which it is being misled.

Norman Angell

#82. In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

Ayn Rand

#83. What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

Aleksandar Hemon

#84. The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

Karl Marx

#85. I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.

Alfred Lin

#86. capitalism itself is a system and that as the environment that hosts capitalism changes - in particular, as the better part of global economic growth begins to occur outside the mature economies of the West - the capitalist system will evolve.

Christopher Meyer

#87. On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Ellen Willis

#88. The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

Manning Marable

#89. Just as China achieved much more than India in the realm of public health and education under an austere Communist regime, so its economic growth under a capitalist-friendly government strikes a visitor from India as nothing less than spectacular.

Pankaj Mishra

#90. Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

Art Spiegelman

#91. Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies.
No sensible capitalist would do that.

Amory Lovins

#92. Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

Edmund Phelps

#93. The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

James Tobin

#94. In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

Ludwig Von Mises

#95. Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

Karl Marx

#96. In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#97. Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

Bela Lugosi

#98. Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

Eric Liu

#99. Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.

Vladimir Lenin

#100. Capitalist production ... was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlier forms of society were too poor for this.

Friedrich Engels