26 Movie Quotes about Capitalism (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: August 4, 2025

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

11 You have taken in $15, and given away 50 cents' worth of crap. Which gives us a net profit of $14.50.

Quote from The Jerk

12 Wages? Do you wanna be wage slaves? Answer me that. No. No, of course not. Well, what makes wage slaves? Wages. I want you to be free.

Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer in The Cocoanuts (1929)

13 No, because it's no longer profitable to keep slaves. Slaves do not produce as much as free men. Let us do what is profitable, and right.

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

14 Certainly, he can present a bill for such services. After all, we are not Communists.

Richard Conte in The Godfather (1972)

15 Remember, they love money. So, just pretend like you own a gold mine and you're in the club.

Quote from Titanic (1997)

16 This is the guy trying to buy the company, not to mention put you on the street and all you can say is 'he seems like a nice guy'?

David Spade as Richard in Tommy Boy (1995)

17 The phone company has too much money. -Oh, good one. -Consequence? -They're corrupt. Result? -The system perpetuates itself at the expense of the people.

Quote from Sneakers (1992)

18 You know, we got our railroad barons, we got cattle barons. You're gonna be the first billiard baron.

Gene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven

19 You care about nothing except money? -That's correct. I think of nothing except silver and gold, of course.

Quote from The Deadly Breaking Sword (1979)

20 I don't know. I got to make money. Last year it was kill Japs, and this year it's make money.

Fredric March as Al Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)