Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Capitalism

• There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Differences, States

• Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Doe, Too Much

• The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Corporations, Efficiency, Bigs

• [Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Answers, Demand, Want

• The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Independent, Community, Tolerate

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, pp. 33-34, 1917.

• Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, Waiting, Virtue

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, p. 37, 1917.

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