Best 955 quotes in «capitalism quotes» category

You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.

You see man we are just fucking extras!! Extras in a capitalist blockbuster!~page 75

You should not have too many people waiting on you, you should have to do most things for yourself. Hotel service is embarrassing. Maids, waiters, bellhops, porters and so forth are the most embarrassing people in the world for they continually remind you of inequities which we accept as the proper thing. The sight of an ancient woman, gasping and wheezing as she drags a heavy pail of water down a hotel corridor to mop up the mess of some drunken overprivileged guest, is one that sickens and weighs upon the heart and withers it with shame for this world in which it is not only tolerated but regarded as proof positive that the wheels of Democracy are functioning as they should without interference from above or below. Nobody should have to clean up anybody else’s mess in this world. It is terribly bad for both parties, but probably worse for the one receiving the service.

You think of killing him on the spot but discard that thought and leave, down into the urine-stinking elevator, they have you crucified too, America at work, where they rip out your intestines and your brain and your will and your spirit. They suck you dry, then throw you away. The capitalist system. The work ethic. The profit motive. The memory of your father’s words, “work hard and you’ll be appreciated.” of course, only if you make much more for them than they pay you.

You've heard the call: We have to do something. We need to fight. We need to identify the enemy and go after them. Some respond, march and chant. Some look away, deny what's happening and search out escape routes into imaginary tomorrows: a life off the grid, space colonies, immortality in paradise, explicit denial, or consumer satiety in wireless, robot staffed, 3-D printed techno-utopia. Meanwhile, the rich take shelter in their fortresses, trusting to their air conditioning, private schools, and well-paid guards. Fight. Flight. Flight. Flight. The threat of death activates our deepest animal drives.

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

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

America is capitalism on steroids.

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

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

Capitalism does what it does and money doesn't belong to anybody. It just stays in someone's wallet for a while, then it goes somewhere else. It always goes somewhere and it is always about to go somewhere.

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

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

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

Capitalism is the key to survival.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.

Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.

But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism!

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.

Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

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

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

Capitalism is destroying the earth.