quotes about Capitalism
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Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
-- David Harvey -
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
-- David HarveySource : "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.
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Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
-- David KortenSource : "Globalization and After". Book edited by Samir Dasgupta and Ray Kiely, 2006.
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The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
-- Edward HeathSource : 'Hansard' 15 May 1973, col. 1243 (on the Lonrho affair)
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...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
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Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it.
-- Eric Kierans -
Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
-- Ernest GellnerSource : Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.94, Cornell University Press
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If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.
-- Eugen WeberSource : "Varieties of Fascism: Doctrine of Revolution in the Twentieth Century" by Eugen Weber, Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand, (p. 47), 1964.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society
-- Francis FukuyamaSource : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
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All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
Economics is really politics in disguise.
-- Hazel Henderson -
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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.
-- Henry Hazlitt -
Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
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Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.
-- Immanuel WallersteinSource : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.47, Verso
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Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
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Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.
-- Jim StanfordSource : Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr
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The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.
-- Joan Robinson -
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Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.
-- Jon Ronson -
Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
-- Karl Liebknecht -
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
-- Karl LiebknechtSource : "Where Will Peace Come From?". www.marxists.org. November 2, 1912.
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My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.
-- Karl MarxSource : "The Most Important Documentary On America Ever, Destroying America From Within". beforeitsnews.com. December 28, 2013.
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Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.
-- Kenneth Minogue -
Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?
-- Kenneth WaltzSource : Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.127, Columbia University Press
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We need a break from Capitalism,
-- Kshama SawantSource : "Seattle socialist Kshama Sawant’s SOTU response: ‘We need a break from capitalism’". Response to the State of the Union address, www.rawstory.com. January 29, 2014.
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Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman
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Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
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Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.
-- Louis MacNeiceSource : "Twentieth Century Authors, a biographical dictionary of modern literature". Book by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, 1942.
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America is capitalism on steroids.
-- LowkeySource : Song: Obama Nation 2, Album: Soundtrack To Struggle
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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We are capitalism made flesh.
-- Mark KingwellSource : "The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.
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Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will
-- Martin WolfSource : Martin Wolf (2004). “Why Globalization Works”, p.57, Yale University Press
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American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
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The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,
-- Michael Lewis -
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
-- Milton Friedman -
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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.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
-- Mordecai RichlerSource : Mordecai Richler (2010). “Cocksure”, p.142, Emblem Editions
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Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism
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Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.
-- Nick CohenSource : Nick Cohen (2000). “Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous”, p.126, Verso
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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
-- Norman O. BrownSource : Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.273, Wesleyan University Press
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The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
-- Patricia MarxSource : "Buy Shanghai!" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.
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The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.
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What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
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Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.
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Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.
-- Ralph Nader -
If you lived with a roommate as unstable as capitalism...
-- Richard D. Wolff -
Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.
-- Robert Heilbroner -
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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.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.
-- Robert Reich -
Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.
-- Robert Sherrill -
Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
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Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.
-- Serj Tankian -
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system
-- Stokely Carmichael -
Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.
-- Terry Eagleton -
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I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude
-- Thomas Jefferson -
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
-- Tony Benn -
Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.
-- Ulrike Meinhof -
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.
-- Allen W. WoodSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.
-- Andi ZeislerSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.
-- Howard Warren BuffettSource : "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "The Charlie Rose Show", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
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The capitalism we are in now is already coming to an end
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In 2003, Helmut Schmidt said: Predatory capitalism exists, we have to civilize it and we can do that via Europe. He was right. We haven't tried hard enough.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.
-- Renata Salecl -
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Capitalism is the key to survival.
-- Andrew Joseph Galambos -
Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.
-- Charles BuxtonSource : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.285
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Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.
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Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
-- Susan George -
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Unbridled capitalism will lead to some very real problems.
-- Kenneth RogoffSource : Source: www.spiegel.de