39 Movie Quotes about Capitalism (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 23, 2026

Memorable quotes about capitalism, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 He decided to put his information to good use and make a little money out of it. What could be more American than that?

Tim Curry as Wadsworth in Clue (1985)

2 Which brings us, once again, to the urgent realization of just how much there is still left to own.

Graham Chapman in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

3 What's wrong with this country, Marty? Money. You taught me that. Evil defense contractors had it, noble causes did not.

Ben Kingsley as Cosmo in Sneakers (1992)

4 What's the matter with you? All you think about is Gimme, gimme, gimme. Get, get, get. -That's called survival, baby.

Melanie Kohn as Lucy Van Pelt; Schroeder From Peanuts in It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

5 The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime.

Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen in Network (1976)

6 Capitalists like myself who carry large sums of money often have such safety contrivances.

Adam West as Bruce Wayne - Batman in Batman (1966)

7 And why is the plant shut down? -It's the middle of the night. -Machines don't sleep. Start it up. Every second lost means money lost. And money lost means I scream a lot!

Mel Blanc as Cosmo Spacely in Jetsons: The Movie (1990)

8 You know what capitalism is? Getting _ed.

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (1983)

9 The bank and I have the same purpose in life: to make money. Not to support a lot of deadbeats.

Zach Galligan as Billy Peltzer in Gremlins

10 That's the history of many a big business. Wars, conflict - it's all business.

Charlie Chaplin as Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux