Capitalism Quotes

This stock-market thing was a great game, but, after all, everybody just can't live on gambling. Somebody has to do some work.

- Will Rogers

Ethics should precede economics... We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products -- from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of greater and greater profits.

- Arianna Huffington

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

- Christopher Lasch

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

- Christopher Lasch

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

The term "free market" is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is "lawless market." In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits), while socializing its costs (like pollution).

- Steve Kangas

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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

- Abraham Lincoln

The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career.

- Albert Einstein

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

- Christopher Lasch

People like Eugene Debs, Helen Keller, Emma Goldman, Jack London and Upton Sinclair were wonderful writers who joined the movement against war and injustice, against capitalism and corporate power. That was a very exciting period in American history.

- Howard Zinn

We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was as a socialist, and because I was a socialist, that I fell in love with America. In saying that I am not indulging in romantic nostalgia about youthful days on the road but rather underlining a crucial political truth. If the Left wants to change this country because it hates it, then the people will never listen to the Left and the people will be right. To be a socialist -- to be a Marxist -- is to make an act of faith, of love even, toward this land. It is to sense the seed beneath the snow; to see, beneath the veneer of corruption and meanness and the commercialization of human relationships, men and women capable of controlling their own destinies.

- Michael Harrington

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Of course I believe in free enterprise, but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

- Harry S Truman

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

- Orson Scott Card

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If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor.

- Frank Lloyd Wright