Quotes on Capitalism

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

Author: Julian Assange

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Author: Alain Badiou

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

Author: Peter Berger

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.

Author: John Blair

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Author: Norman Brown

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

Author: Jeb Bush

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Author: Al Capone

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Author: Orson Card

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

Author: Stokely Carmichael

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.

Author: Hugo Chavez

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

Author: Hugo Chavez

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

Author: Hugo Chavez

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

Author: Anatoly Chubais

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Author: Eugene Debs

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

Author: Ralph Emerson

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Author: Milton Friedman

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Author: Thomas Friedman

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

Author: John Galbraith

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

Author: Garet Garrett

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Author: Susan George

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Author: C. James

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

Author: Fredric Jameson

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Author: Garry Kasparov

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

Author: David Korten

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

Author: Fran Lebowitz

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Author: Vladimir Lenin

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.

Author: Vladimir Lenin

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

Author: Karl Liebknecht

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

Author: Karl Liebknecht

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

Author: Rush Limbaugh

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

Author: John McCarthy

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

Author: Dick Morris

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

Author: Huey Newton

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.

Author: Sarah Palin

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

Author: Chris Patten

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

Author: Ron Paul

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Author: George Reisman

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.

Author: Bertrand Russell

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

Author: Jose Saramago

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

Author: John Saul

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

Author: Upton Sinclair

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

Author: Joe Slovo

I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. 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.

Author: Tavis Smiley

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Author: Thomas Sowell

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Author: Oswald Spengler

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

Author: Richard Stallman

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

Author: Mao Tung

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

Author: Francis Yockey

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

Author: Clara Zetkin

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

Author: Slavoj Zizek