The equality of the capitalist and the laborer is the same as the equality of two fighters, when the hands of one are bound, while a gun is put into the hands of the other, and equal conditions are strictly observed for both in the fight.
—Leo Tolstoy
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.
—Herbert Marcuse
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it.… Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
—Camille Paglia
You may break any written law in America with impunity. There is an unwritten law that you break at your peril. It is: do not attack the profit system.
—Mary Heaton Vorse
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry—between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is accepted as a "trade-off.
—Wendell Berry
Getting a living under capitalism… is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.
—Eugene V. Debs
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it is highly unprofitable to most people.
—E. B. White
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
—C. Wright Mills
When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
—Will O'Brien
I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.…
—Smedley Butler