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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. -- Karl Marx
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. -- Malcolm X
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. -- Vladimir Lenin
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. -- Karl Marx
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. -- James Connolly
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. -- Vladimir Lenin
My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious. -- Fidel Castro
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. -- A. J. P. Taylor
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. -- Camille Paglia
Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce. -- Karl Marx
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. -- Abraham Lincoln
The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope. -- Karl Marx
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. -- Clara Zetkin
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil. -- Albert Einstein
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. -- Karl Marx
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. -- Vladimir Lenin
The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal. -- Bill Haywood
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. -- Raymond Williams
If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains. -- George Bernard Shaw
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. -- Ludwig von Mises
Capitalist cycle of profit. The rancher sells a cow for profit. The butcher sells cuts for profit. The restaurant sells meals for profit. And the patrons spend money for profit. -- Jarod Kintz
I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I'm sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what's the economic engine that's going to drive us into space. -- Peter Diamandis
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate. -- Ayn Rand
The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions. -- Hilaire Belloc
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts. -- Ayn Rand
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. -- C. S. Lewis
In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production, and that absurdity would, by quickly ending all human lives save those of the owners, put a term to the arrangement. -- Hilaire Belloc
Between the combination of Judeo-Christian religious 'be good be good be good' and Capitalist 'something's wrong with you, buy this' and the parental upbringing, which is 'you're wrong, you're not thin enough, you're not smart enough' I mean, hello! We don't have a shot. -- Eve Ensler
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. -- George Bernard Shaw
There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism. -- John Carroll
We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people. -- Mamata Banerjee
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. -- James Tobin
I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. -- Arsene Wenger
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived. -- Noam Chomsky
Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it. -- Thomas Friedman
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. -- Camille Paglia
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Do policy makers have the knowledge and ability to improve macroeconomic outcomes rather than make matters worse? Yes. -- Janet Yellen
While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt. -- Chetan Bhagat
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business. -- Gary Hamel
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea. -- Kim Jong Il
Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person. -- Dean Smith
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. -- Noam Chomsky
If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie. -- Michael Moore
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers. -- Tim Jackson
One capitalist always kills many. -- Karl Marx
Golf is typical capitalist luncay. -- George Bernard Shaw
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction. -- Leon Trotsky
Warhol was questioning the capitalist society. -- James Rosenquist
I'm a pro-capitalist, middle-of-the-road, tepid centrist. -- Anthony Lewis
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian. -- Umberto Eco
The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed. -- Jerry Rubin
In capitalist nation, all is decided by money. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The crisis is the price for the capitalist system -- Muhammad Yunus
Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is. -- Joyce Appleby
My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.' -- Patrice Motsepe
The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. -- Ayn Rand
I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology. -- Maurice Strong
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker. -- Karl Marx
Things do go wrong. Not everyone benefits from the capitalist dream. -- Noreena Hertz
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work. -- Ha-Joon Chang
I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit. -- Felix Rohatyn
Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist. -- David Marusek
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker -- Malcolm X
Every capitalist is rich, but every rich is not a capitalist. -- Amit Kalantri
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. -- Eric Hobsbawm
The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. -- Robert Nozick
I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments. -- Anton Yelchin
I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system." -- Frances Fox Piven
India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation. -- Anil Agarwal
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. -- Karl Marx
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital. -- Bobby Seale
The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. -- Ludwig von Mises
If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist. -- Karl Marx
In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth. -- Ludwig von Mises
I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system. -- Jack Kemp
China's success lies on being a communist community within and a capitalist company outside. -- Osman Doluca
Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual. -- Jenny Hval
The Cloud-Native Enterprise is a venture capitalist creating continuous innovation powered by Cloud Foundry. -- Colin Humphreys
You see man we are just fucking extras!! Extras in a capitalist blockbuster!~page 75 -- Winshluss
I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer. -- Sophia Amoruso
Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system. -- Mal Fletcher
This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old. -- Grace Lee Boggs
In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them. -- John Currin
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. -- George Orwell
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not, -- Janet Yellen
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical." -- Joel Salatin
My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy. -- David Korten
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government. -- Karl Kautsky
The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people. -- Cornel West
Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state. -- Bela Lugosi
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. -- Joel Salatin
The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people. -- Gregor Strasser
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power. -- Nikita Khrushchev
Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age. -- Edward Abbey
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. -- Terry Eagleton
You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions. -- Frans de Waal
Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system. -- Norman Vincent Peale
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. -- Bill Gates
You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust. -- Alan Greenspan
If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist. -- Peter Singer
That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist. -- Peter Drucker
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society. -- Vladimir Lenin
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation. -- C. L. R. James
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. -- David Hare
In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
Mugabe hasn't done anything wrong. It is the imperialists, the capitalist-roaders, who say he is a villain. -- Michael Sata
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production. -- Herbert Marcuse
Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own. -- Osman Doluca
A true capitalist doesn't have a job, because other people and other people's money work for them. -- Robert Kiyosaki
A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now. -- Yvon Chouinard
The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat. -- George Soros
As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while. -- Luke Nosek
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. -- Christopher Dawson

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