Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Pete Holiday

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true

Polish Proverb

Capitalism is the bastard child of democracy.

Doug Moody

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

Upton Sinclair

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Norman O. Brown

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.

John Berger

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Eric Hoffer

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

Bill Gates

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature

Sidney Hook

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

Sylvia Pankhurst

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants

Mao Tse-Tung

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

George Bernard Shaw

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution

George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

George Bernard Shaw
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