Andrew Garfield Quotes

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

I used to think that capitalism was human nature. Now I know that it is culture.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Capitalism carries in itself war, like clouds carry rain.

What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

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

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process.

Capitalism in one century of growth has enormously increased its power, not only through expansion over the entire earth, but also through development into new forms

Although capitalism is, in principle, strongly individualistic, it has contributed in practice to reinforce the trend to integration, because it has made our lives more and more interdependent.

A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values sweep into every aspect of human endeavor. It is a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

For many, perhaps most, Americans, markets are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve around an untrammeled market.

Capitalism is a set of rituals.

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

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

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

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