John Holmes Quotes

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.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

So, we have in America today, my friends, a condition by which about 10 men dominate the means of activity in at least 85 percent of the activities that you own. They either own directly everything or they have got some kind of mortgage on it, with a very small percentage to be excepted. They own the banks, they own the steel mills, they own the railroads, they own the bonds, they own the mortgages, they own the stores, and they have chained the country from one end to the other

The capitalist free market is a marvelous servant but a disastrous master. In one of the greatest achievements of the second half of this [the 20th] century, a few favored societies learned to convert it from master to servant. The danger now is that a smug and vainglorious capitalism will not remember the lesson.

We're always serving something, even if we're not aware of it. We're usually serving capitalism.

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.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

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

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.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

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

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

Combinations [large corporate conglomerates], governed entirely by the law of greed … threaten the integrity of our institutions.

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

The upholders of Capitalism are dreamers and visionaries who, instead of doing good with evil intentions do evil with the best intentions.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

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

The ideology and practice of individual acquisition, accumulation and concentration are now ascendant