Capitalist Quotes - Page 3

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

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.

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

First of all, the majority of us, regardless of what we may say, are capitalists. That is, we practice it, it's what we "do," it's how we live, we are capitalists.

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.

Only capitalists get photographers.

Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is predicated upon the basic premise of collective bargaining between employers and employees. This premise can obtain only for an employer-employee type of society. If the labor movement is to maintain its own identity and security, it must of necessity protect that kind of society.

What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices.

Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better job of meeting human needs than a regulated capitalist economy coupled with a welfare and health care system that meets the basic needs of those who do not thrive in the capitalist economy. If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

If we ever do find a better system, I'll be happy to call myself an anti-capitalist.

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP.

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.