Quotes about Capitalism
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
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
Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
— Hilaire Belloc
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.
— Ayn Rand