39 Movie Quotes about Capitalism (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 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)

32 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)

33 It's D-day, gentlemen and woman, or, as I prefer to call it, P-day. P for profits.

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

34 Remain calm? Does the captain feel no sense of responsibility for the lives of his passengers?

Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

35 Well, this is it. The last bastion of pure capitalism left on earth.

Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe in Trading places (1983)

36 I call it capitalism.

Ky-Mani Marley as Biggs in Shottas

37 And now that you're a capitalist, I don't know how you'd feel about working for a living...

Dick Powell as Jimmy in Christmas in July (1944)

38 The poor guy didn't have enough for a cup of coffee. He used to hang around Division Street every night, handin' out leaflets. Tellin' us how we were being exploited by capitalism and that we should organize.

Jack Lemmon as Hildy Johnson in The Front Page (1974)

39 Once-proud financial giants lay in ruins, their assets stripped, their policies in tatters.

Quote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life