Late Capitalism Quotes

#1. [Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois' need to feel that he is not bourgeois.

Allan Bloom

#2. the space diaspora occurred as late capitalism writhed in its internal decision concerning whether to destroy Earth's biosphere or change its rules. Many argued for the destruction of the biosphere, as being the lesser of two evils

Kim Stanley Robinson

#3. The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.

Richard Rosen

#4. Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

Nick Cohen

#5. I don't do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism. Breakfast maybe?

Thomas Pynchon

#6. Success as a Christian is to become the essence of the presence of God on earth

Sunday Adelaja

#7. He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

H.W. Brands

#8. Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

Angela Carter

#9. I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

Carly Fiorina

#10. How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

David Levithan

#11. Why dwell on the pain, when you can focus on peaceful thoughts?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.

Chuck Brown

#13. 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.

Tariq Ali

#14. Late-stage capitalism isn't reformable.

Anonymous

#15. Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

John Clayton

#16. Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.

Lewis H. Lapham

#18. Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

Matthew Arnold

#19. Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?

Colson Whitehead

#20. The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything's on its head, it's a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction ...

Thomas Pynchon

#21. He was cold. He was so little and so very cold. That same cold clamped around his adult bones as the trees fell away and The Ranch opened out around him.

S.M. Freedman

#22. Most of all, he was tired of being a holdout, a sole survivor, the last coconut hanging on the last palm tree on the last little atoll in the path of the great wave of late-modern capitalism, waiting to be hammered flat.

Michael Chabon

#23. I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

Stephen Jay Gould