Oswald Spengler Quotes

Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.

The “natural laws of economics” are in fact tools in the hands of the avaricious and the greedy for keeping down and oppressing the laboring classes.

Every government that exists -- or ever existed, or ever will exist -- is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves". Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

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

The strongest bulwark of the capitalistic system is the ignorance of its victims.

“Capital” is a sort of cabalistic word, like “Church” or “State,” or any other of those general terms which are invented by those who fleece the rest of mankind to conceal the hand that shears them.

What we call Monopoly is Business at the end of its journey. The concentration of wealth, the wiping out of the middle classes, are other names for it. To get it is, in the world of affairs, the chief end of man.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

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

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

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

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff

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

Why does the great body of workingmen still permit itself to be ruled and exploited by the capitalists? Why are they not in a position to drive the minority of exploiters from power? Because they are an unorganized, undisciplined, individualistic and ignorant mass. The majority is impotent because it consists of a divided crowd of individuals each one of whom wishes to act according to his own impulse, regard his own interests.

Those who claim they are the prisoners of the laws of economics, only testify that they are prisoners of the idol.

Capitalists personally are often the mildest-mannered men that ever shattered a family or drained a workingman of his marrow.

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

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

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

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.