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Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

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

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

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

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.

I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from capitalism in a sense.

I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback of freedom.

If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.

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

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman

Sex work is a completely unregulated industry and to make the affront even worse, the product and the labourers are the same thing! The product is the sexuality of the actual labourers: flesh. I think in that sense, the exploitative nature of unencumbered capitalism is made even more dramatic.

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

The bureaucratic nature of both capitalism and our government assures us that there are no checks and balances when it comes to justifying any and all behavior that either makes money and secures the supposed peace of the nation-state.

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

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

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

The capitalism we are in now is already coming to an end

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.