“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together f...”

“Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by...”

“Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.”

“...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.”

“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”

“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”

“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”

“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.”

“If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased...”