Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism is in crisis.

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

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.

I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

Capitalism works.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

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

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

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.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

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

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

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

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

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

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

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

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

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.

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

I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.