C Quotes
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“Capitalism did not make the break from feudalism and slavery that we thought it did, it harnessed and bridled those things for corporate profits in the pursuit of the 1% monocracy.”
“Capitalism does not merely mean that the housewife may influence production by her choice between peas and beans; or that plant managers have some voice in deciding what and how to produce: it means a scheme of values, an attitude toward life, a civilization—the civilization of inequality and of the family fortune.”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.”
“Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.”
“Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.”
“Capitalism emphasizes the utility of capital. Permaculture Economics emphasizes the stewardship of Capital.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.”
Source: What's So Great About Christianity
“Capitalism everywhere generates wealth at one pole and poverty at another.”
Source: Le capitalisme monopoliste
“Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.”
Source: Human Action
“Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.”
“capitalism got inside my head
and made me think my only value
is how much i produce
for people to consume
capitalism got inside my head
and made me think
i am of worth
as long as i am working
i learned impatience from it
i learned self-doubt from it
learned to plant seeds in the ground
and expect flowers the next day
but magic”
Source: Home Body
“Capitalism grants you no limits in how much you can grow and expand your services.”
Source: A Ticket to Prosperity
“Capitalism grew out of organic interaction.
Communism was a forced ideology developed by fools that don't understand the social system or human nature.”
“Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom - and the right of contract, which is one of the main functions of economic freedom. Therefore, even under Capitalism, so long as the old principles were remembered it was possible to recall the principles whereby Society had once been sane and well ordered.”
“Capitalism has a way of making us all hypocrites. While there are people who are being exploited in making our clothes, devices, and other conveniences, we remain ignorant of their plight and continue to support companies that do those heinous acts. This principle is similar to euthanasia. We all know that billions of people are suffering worldwide, yet instead of giving them a peaceful ending, we exploit them for what they are worth and squeeze the life out of their hearts only for us to profit from their deaths.”
Source: The Why Of Life: Why We Live Without Purpose and How to Find Meaning in a Pointless Life
“Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.”
“Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.”
Source: MEMEnomics: The Next Generation Economic System
“Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.”
Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.”
Source: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
“Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.”
“Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?”
“Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.”
Source: The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty
“Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.”
“Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“Capitalism has commercialized even spirituality.”
“Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling of scarcity, is a feeling of economic insecurity. Along with that is a feeling of deprivation... And unless we can demonstrate that that feeling is not justified technologically, we will not be able to speak intelligently to the great majority of people and reorganize our economy so that we really know what needs are rational and human and what have been created, almost fetishisticaly, by the capitalist economy.”
“Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.”
“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.”
“Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.”
Source: In Defence of Global Capitalism
“Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which, only a hundred years ago, not even the richest nabobs dreamed.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses
“Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.”
“Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty, socialism sends them back.”
“Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.”
“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.”
“Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but is the current form of capitalism the best way of it working?”
“Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.”
“Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.”
“Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.”
“Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.”
“Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.”
“Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.”
“Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.”
“Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information.”
“Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.”
Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh
“Capitalism has turned entertainment into a trap with which advertisers attempt to catch our attention in order to tempt us to release our money into their possession.”
“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.”
“Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.”
“Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.”