Capitalism Quotes

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 the legitimate racket of the ruling class. View quote
Al Capone
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. View quote
Frank Borman
Fascism is capitalism plus murder. View quote
Upton Sinclair
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. View quote
Oswald Spengler
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? View quote
Fidel Castro
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. View quote
Thomas Friedman
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go. View quote
Louis MacNeice
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema. View quote
Sergei Eisenstein
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. View quote
Hugo Chávez
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
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. View quote
Daniel De Leon
We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism. View quote
Fred Hampton
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. View quote
Don Tapscott
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. View quote
Susan Sontag
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. View quote
Angela Carter
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. (Terry Eagleton)
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. View quote
Raymond Williams
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. View quote
Milton Friedman