“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.”
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Karl Marx
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Erich Fromm
1 quote“Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
1 quote“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.”
Leon Trotsky
1 quote“...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.”
Ludwig von Mises
1 quote“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”
Simone de Beauvoir
1 quote“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”
Lenin
1 quote“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Alexandre Dumas
1 quote“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.”
Eric Hoffer
1 quote“If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased...”