Capitalism Quotes

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Fidel Castro

Winston Churchill

Don Tapscott

Herbert Marcuse

Fredric Jameson

John Berger

Ken MacLeod

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

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

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all, I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today - ethics, and moral...[Capitalism is] an infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

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

Norman O. Brown

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

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

Herbert Marcuse

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

Francis Parker Yockey

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.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

Raymond Williams

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

Fredric Jameson

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Oswald Spengler

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

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

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? We're fucked, that's what.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. In short we dislike it, and we are beginning to despise it. But when we wonder what to put in its place, we are extremely perplexed.

John Maynard Keynes

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work among the peasants during the co-operative movement and for a very long period after.

For capitalism is abolished root and branch by the bare assumption that it is personal consumption and not enrichment that works as the compelling motive.

It was not capitalism's internal contradictions that, having exhausted all possibilities, caused the system to explode. The struggle for liberation from a foreign oppressor; the misery caused by external events such as war, whose consequences privileged classes place on the backs of the exploited; liberation movements aimed at overthrowing neo-colonial regimes — these are the usual factors in unleashing this kind of explosion.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

G. K. Chesterton