Matt Taibbi Quotes

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.

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

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

'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

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

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

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

We oppose monopoly, the tendency of which is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for two centuries have tortured sad humanity. This delusion is the love of work, the furious passion for work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual and his progeny

We live in a world today where the capitalists' confidence in their ability to rule has been shaken.

… capitalism is being killed by its achievements.

There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation, and pernicious influence of wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations, and a means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of industry and dry all streams.

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.

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

Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good.

The point is always made that capitalism is efficient, people say 'You might not like it, but it works.' But Britain is not efficient.

The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

As long as we have have predatory capitalism, we'll have guns because the gun industry loves to make money out of guns.

Whenever you make someone dependent on your money... It's this capitalist idea that I think has made America into a place where it's hard to breathe as an individual sometimes.

It's easy to say, 'I'm anti-capitalist,' or, 'I'm anti-Western decadence,' without having to be challenged about what that actually means, or how you might go about reshaping society to make it better.