“I'll tell you what happened, son! See, there's a bunch of idiots out there who weren't happy with what they had! They wanted a bigger house and materialistic things that they didn't even need. People with no money who got loans to buy frivolous things they had no business buying. And these assholes…”— Trey Parker, Randy Marsh, Trey Parker, imdb.com
“Your mom's enthusiastic spending is exactly what Jesus had in mind when he invented capitalism.”— Steve Hely, Laura McCreary, Stan Smith (voice), Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com
“When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.”— Emma Goldman, marxists.org
“The history of the American kings of capital and authority is the history of repeated crimes, injustice, oppression, outrage, and abuse, all aiming at the suppression of individual liberties and the exploitation of the people.”— Emma Goldman, marxists.org
“Government exists but to maintain special privilege and property rights; it coerces man into submission and therefore robs him of dignity, self-respect, and life.”— Emma Goldman, marxists.org
“One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a mi…”— Harry S Truman, en.wikisource.org
“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”— Thomas Sowell, amazon.com
“One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized.”— Thomas Sowell, amazon.com
“I make money by supplying a public demand. If I break the law, my customers…of the best people in Chicago are as guilty as me.”— Al Capone, smithsonianmag.com
“In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system....The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed…”— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org
“Capitalism: God’s way of determining who is smart and who is poor.”— Alan Yang, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com
“A man who works for another is not going to be paid any more than he is worth; you can bet on that. A man ought to get what he can earn. Don't make any difference whether it's running a farm, running a bank or running a show; a man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of th…”— Babe Ruth, en.wikiquote.org
“I think money is energy, and I've always looked at it in that way.”— Ryan Murphy, hollywoodreporter.com
“Priest: Don’t you have faith? Jack: I have faith in things I can see, and buy, and regulate. Capitalism is my religion.”— Tina Fey, Jack Burditt, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com
“American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.”— Sergei Eisenstein, en.wikiquote.org
“And this all started because I tried to hide from society. Remember? ‘Fuck society.’ Yeah, well, I fucked society all right. I reset it to zero, and if I don't do anything about it, it will continue to grow in this malignant way. And that's what I'm afraid of the most. This dark future that I set in…”— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com
“It has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good gov…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“The money pigs of capitalist democracy….Money has made slaves of us…Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.”— Joseph Goebbels, en.wikiquote.org