Raymond Williams Quotes

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

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

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

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

Capitalism carries in itself war, like clouds carry rain.

One capitalist always kills many.

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

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

The ultimate credo of capitalism is to exploit people. It's not like this is just an incidental problem; it's inherent in the system.

I don't think capitalism can survive.

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

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

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

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

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.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

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

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

Capitalism will kill competition.

Capitalists are no more capable of self sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself by his own bootstraps.

Pullman, who has grown so rich from the toil of his workingmen, that he can riot in luxury, while he heartlessly turns these very workmen out of their tenements into the streets and leave to the tender mercies of corporate greed.