(837 quotes found)
“Capitalism is founded on greed and envy”
Charles Long
“There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants”
Mao Tse-Tung
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people”
Abraham Lincoln
“Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.”
Angela Carter
“I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.”
Sylvia Pankhurst
“Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.”
Fidel Castro
“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. . .”
A. J. P. Taylor
“The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism”
Norman Brenner