It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, sedition’s, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.
Capitalism - Capitalists Quotes
What kind of society isn’t structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: “No man should have so much.” The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: “All men should have as much.”
Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent – yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected of them, to fit into the […]
A true capitalist fights with their wallet. A true anarchist fights with the opponents’ wallet.
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
With increasing division of labor, there is increasing exchange of goods, but normally the exchange of goods is nothing but a means to an economic end. In capitalistic society exchanging has become an end in itself.
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
