Quotes about Capitalism
Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
- Alice Walker
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
- Bill Gates
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.
- Boots Riley
America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.
- MC Ren
The way of mammon (capital, wealth) is the way of commodity that is the way of endless desire, endless productivity, and endless restlessness without any Sabbath. Jesus taught his disciples that they could not have it both ways.
- Walter Brueggemann
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
- DH Lawrence
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
- Ayn Rand
Money is coined liberty.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Money doesn't talk. It screams.
- Glenn Beck
Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.
- George W. Bush