Non Capitalist Quotes

#1. You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging in backbreaking toil are people who are doing it for sport. To find people whose day's toil has not been lightened by mechanical invention, you must go to the non-capitalist world.

Milton Friedman

#2. 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

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

Mal Fletcher

#4. 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

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

Eugene V. Debs

#6. 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

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

Evo Morales

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

Bobby Seale

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Anil Agarwal

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Steve Hallett

#16. 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

#17. 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.

Hilaire Belloc

#18. The windmill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam mill, society with the industrial capitalist

Karl Marx

#19. 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

#20. Only capitalists get photographers.

Stephen Sondheim

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Nikita Khrushchev

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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.

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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