Top 25 Capitalism Quotes of 131

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

Karl Marx

America, Life Is, Capitalism

"The Most Important Documentary On America Ever, Destroying America From Within". beforeitsnews.com. December 28, 2013.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

Vladimir Lenin

Rope, Capitalist, Capitalism

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Philosophy, Carpe Diem, Laissez Faire Capitalism

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.226, e-artnow

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.

Adolf Hitler

Two Sides, Coins, Capitalism

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Robert Kennedy

Government, Free Market, Capitalism

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

Richard M. Nixon

Sound, Socialism, Capitalism

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

Murray Rothbard

Expression, Anarchism, Capitalism

"Exclusive Interview With Murray Rothbard". The New Banner: A Fortnightly Libertarian Journal Interview, www.lewrockwell.com. February 25, 1972.

Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

Ben Shapiro

Moral, Socialism, Capitalism And Socialism

Ben Shapiro (2015). “Ben Shapiro: Volume I”, p.7, Creators Publishing

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

George Soros

Believe, Enemy, Laissez Faire Capitalism

"The Capitalist Threat" by George Soros, www.theatlantic.com. February 1997.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

Malcolm X

Racism, Capitalism

"Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman (May 29, 1964), 1965.

Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.

Kenneth Minogue

People, Capitalism, Ifs

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

Joan Robinson

Economics, Capitalism

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Henry George

Dream, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Noble

Henry George (1886). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth [and] the Remedy”

Anti-Semitism is really a hatred of capitalism.

Ulrike Meinhof

Hatred, Anti Semitism, Capitalism

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Kings, Divine Right, Capitalism

Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.115, Small Beer Press

Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

James Cook

Donation, Critics, Capitalism

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Fidel Castro

Cold War, American Capitalism, Capitalism

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

Evo Morales

Worst Enemy, Humanity, Capitalism

"Bush Seeks Free Trade With Latin America". "All Things Considered" with Michele Kelemen, www.npr.org. September 24, 2008.

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

Charles Bukowski

Communism, Capitalism, Survived

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Andrew Carnegie

Luxury, Capitalism

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

Walter Benjamin

Extremes, Capitalism

Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.288, Harvard University Press

Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.

Ralph Nader

Socialism, Capitalism

Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?

Slavoj Žižek

Facts, Accepted, Capitalism

Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.