But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Your most bitter enemies are the values imposed on you without your choice. Those idols have taken away your freedom from you;… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
First of all, the majority of us, regardless of what we may say, are capitalists. That is, we practice it, it's what… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
“It appears - because it has been the case for twenty years - that every problem is solvable...that no matter how badly… — Paul Mason Copy Share Image
“A good economic system should therefore also have the property of producing “good human beings.” In this respect, capitalism is not considered… — Giacomo Corneo Copy Share Image
Socialism destroys everywhere one thing - diversity. Everything is supposed to be best, and as we know, best things are always in… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
“capitalism is for Karatani not a ‘pure’ reign of B, but a triad (or, rather, a Borromean knot) of nation–state–capital: nation as… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things"… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . .… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
“When the contentious questions are mainly economic (put aside such inflammatory but mainly noneconomic matters as capital punishment or abortion) they tend… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“This American system of ours', he shouted, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and… — claud cockburn Copy Share Image
Socialism and Communism don't work, but neither does straightforward capitalism. We've got to get a new way of thinking and working. We… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not, — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The pope once again ripped - I mean, really ripped - capitalism and Americans' immigration policy at the Mexican border, before he… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“We are in the midst of the evolution of capitalism from a century focused on maximizing short-term shareholder value to one focused… — Ryan Honeyman Copy Share Image
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
