Jean Baudrillard Quotes

If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

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

Capitalism carries in itself war, like clouds carry rain.

Democratic capitalism, combined with industrial democracy, is unquestionably the best way of life for mankind.

Capitalism is very unfair but it is the only system that works.

Democracy and capitalism have both been hacked.

One capitalist always kills many.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

Everything does not have to be a commodity.

Commercial success and quality are not necessarily allied.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

For me, health, education, and spirituality should never be commercialised.

Everything is always about people trying to make profit: Profits to this, profits to that, the more the merrier, and there's no end to it.

What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to stuff our houses with things we don't need. Perhaps this is one thing art can do: create a new aesthetic, one of austerity.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.