I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I'm a capitalist. I believe in the proper working of the free market. That's why I found the scandals of 2008, the… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
We're building a movement. It's undeniably a work in progress, but there's a fundamental desire to see capitalism to do something different. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities … We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering,… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Capitalist realism can only be threatened if it is shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable; if, that is to… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue… — Robert Paul Wolff Copy Share Image
The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism… — James Davies Copy Share Image
“I wonder of what you must daily endure in America, having no government to protect you, no one to tell you what… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such… — Doug Henwood Copy Share Image
“Our planet is about ... billions of years old. So far, the earliest finds of modern human skeletons come from Africa, which… — Nadja Sam Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
“We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor'… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“True socialism is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The socialist submerging of the individual under the collective’s prerogative is a perverse and putrid vision for humanity.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Socialism is the freedom that comes from shedding the capitalist-made fear of being replaced and refusing to live by their engineered competition.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism. — Eugen Weber Copy Share Image
Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Government wants to provide the little but the sufficient so that you keep cool and quiet while you are being a slave… — Carlos A Copy Share Image
I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort,… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image