C Quotes
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“Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it produces new, better, and cheaper goods.... Indeed, with capitalism, the emphasis shifted to producing goods as cheaply as possible for the masses--the working class--whereas artisans had previously produced their goods and wares mostly for the aristocracy. Under capitalism every business wants to cater to the masses, for that is where the money is.”
“Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.”
“Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.”
“Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being.”
“Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.”
Source: World
“Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.”
Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
“Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives.”
“Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere.”
“Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.”
“Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.”
“Capitalism is a funny name which lefties give to basic freedom.”
“Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.”
“Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a lot of promise. This is why it is so important to agitate against the system in good times and bad. We can't depend on some super crisis to get folks thinking but instead have to focus on all of the contradictions of the system which cannot be ultimately resolved by it.”
“Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.”
“Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1913-1926
“Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.”
“Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system”
“Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.”
“Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist, that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level. [...] Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I am opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.”
“Capitalism is a system of accountability and reciprocity.”
Source: Essays on Capitalism & The U.S. Economy
“Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.”
“Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.”
Source: Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century
“Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.”
“Capitalism is about exploitation, it's about putting money before people. There is no humanity in the dictionary of capitalists.”
“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.”
“Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.”
“Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.”
“Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.”
“Capitalism is Altruistic, and it requires a certain altruism of each of us.”
Source: Essays on Capitalism & The U.S. Economy
“Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.”
“Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.”
Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“Capitalism is an ability to stay rich and keep getting rich.”
“Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Capitalism is an art form.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.”
“Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.”
“Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.”
“Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.”
“Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism”
“Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.”
“Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.”
“Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even a dogma, which is today called, the "tragedy of the commons" which holds that if things are held in common they are going to be destroyed. If they're privatized, like you give them to Bechtel or Monsanto or ExxonMobil, then they'll be preserved because that's the capitalist's religion.”
“Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.”
Source: The Practice of Management
“Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907, 1929 and 1987.In economies and politics, as in war, an astonishing number of people die, like the man on the railway crossing, defending their right of way. This is a poorly developed instinct in Switzerland. No country so firmly avows the principles of private enterprise but in few have the practical concessions to socialism been more numerous and varied.”
“Capitalism is cruelty for money.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity.”
“Capitalism is disgusted by those whose happiness is not a result of buying … or selling.”