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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
Warhol was questioning the capitalist society. -- James Rosenquist
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital. -- Bobby Seale
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. -- Clara Zetkin
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
I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves. -- Lee Harvey Oswald
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications. -- Mary Douglas
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities. -- Rudolf Hiferding
Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces. -- Earl Browder
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. -- Emily Greene Balch
Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone. -- Bernard Werber
I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. -- George Saunders
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
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. -- Ayn Rand
The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. -- Robert Nozick
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. -- Karl Marx
This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old. -- Grace Lee Boggs
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 main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat. -- George Soros
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. -- Christopher Dawson
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil. -- Albert Einstein
Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class. -- James Connolly
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. -- Vladimir Lenin
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. -- Karl Marx
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. -- Milton Friedman
The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society. -- Ramsay MacDonald
While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people. -- Kshama Sawant
Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well. -- Bernie Sanders
Capitalism Survive?"?I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons. -- William H. Gates, Sr.
Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman. -- Johan Norberg
The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society. -- Manning Marable
We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods. -- Ai Weiwei
The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes. -- Terry Eagleton
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. -- William Graham Sumner
Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment. -- John Fowles
There is no real answer (to the U.S. economic crisis) but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution. -- Cornel West
It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer. -- Ludwig von Mises
Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself. -- bell hooks
Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not. -- Willem Dafoe
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society. -- Antonio Negri
In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism. -- Ludwig von Mises
... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods. -- Toni Cade Bambara
We do not have to get rid of consumer-capitalist society before we can begin to build the new way. The way to replace the old system is to ignore it to death. -- Ted Trainer
We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters. -- Cornel West
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
In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it. -- Sally Wentworth
Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter

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