The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Do not trade in your history, your people, your community for the petty callings of capitalist success. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the authority of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the creative… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“It seems improbable that the American fundamentalists, who desire to see the Ten Commandments emblazoned in every schoolroom and courtroom - almost… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
For me, it was always clear that Toni Erdmann is more a film about what globalization, capitalism, does with private relationships much… — Maren Ade Copy Share Image
“The air, soil and water cumulatively degrade; the climates and oceans destabilize; species become extinct at a spasm rate across continents; pollution… — John McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“In sum, capitalism is a thing of beauty. It’s not the same as long ago when heredity and physical strength determined who… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“The unbearable silliness of English newspapers from about 1900 onward has had two main causes. One is that nearly the whole of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People should absolutely have a point of view about the political process themselves individually, but we're also at a point in the… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.” — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism. — John Blair Copy Share Image
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity. — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Socialism is not a way of life. It is an unworkable formula which would apply to robots but not to men and… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
