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You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that there is something seriously wrong with this system. Capitalism is a system that puts rich people on a pedestal, legalizes greed, and enables the rich to exploit the poor. It’s morally wrong. What kind of a God would support something so immoral? Would Jesus support the exploitation of the poor by the rich? No, of course not. If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ’s teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated to be against greed. It’s your duty as a good person to be against exploitation. It’s your moral duty to be against predatory capitalism.

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels." "Its own grave-diggers," he said. "But these are not the grave-diggers. This is the free market itself. These people are a fantasy generated by the market. They don't exist outside the market. There is nowhere they can go to be on the outside. There is no outside." The camera tracked a cop chasing a young man through the crowd, an image that seemed to exist at some drifting distance from the moment. "The market culture is total. It breeds these men and women. They are necessary to the system they despise. They give it energy and definition. They are market-driven. They are traded on the markets of the world. This is why they exist, to invigorate and perpetuate the system.

You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some steps in the courtyard where Linter's place was, and I looked across it and there was a little notice on the wall saying it was forbidden to take photographs of the courtyard without the man's permission. [..] They want to own the light!

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day that shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole...

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.

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 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're a smart one. You know as good as me and as Flick that there is no Promised Land. Matilda's an orphan, a daughter of dead gods. But Ancestors is real and their spirits are at work. Baby sun giving out is how they making a fuss.

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.

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

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

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

Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

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

America is capitalism on steroids.

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

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

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.

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.

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

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

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.