W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

I don't think capitalism can survive.

The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its greatest danger.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists—they're too greedy.

In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

In a capitalist society all institutions are in danger of control by the counting room.

… capitalism is being killed by its achievements.

The Western capitalist system is sunk to its neck in human problems. Despite the copious wealth that it has at its disposal, it is completely incapable of establishing social justice.

Controlling capitalism has proved far more difficult than controlling anything else, because capitalism is based on the control of the many by the few—the reverse of the conventional definition of political democracy.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

I don't have anything against corporate America. I mean, I guess there's something about living in a capitalist society that can get kind of terrifying at times.

Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in the Black Lives Matter movement. We see it among black youth who are now struggling and trying to make connections internationally with other groups and trying to figure out what's going on in the world and the ways things like police violence and systemic violence all come together under neoliberalism.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.