The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism. — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
“The various manifestations of socialism destroyed both their peoples and their ecosystems, whereas the powers of the North and the West have… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
“So differential treatment is a part of socialism just as it is in capitalism, but in the latter system, self-dependency and self-reliance… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
“The problem with capitalism is that "we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible." And that's dangerous, he warns -… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“Bastiat (1801–1850) was a strikingly clear-minded early advocate of what came to be known as liberal economics, whose central idea is that… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“There is a lovely feature of the American psyche which rejects the notion that there are victims. In America, attitude is a… — Carl-John X Veraja Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Children, awkward, isolate, their bodies crammed to bursting with caffein and sugar and pop music and cologne and perfume and hairgel and… — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
“Like, suppose Massachusetts were to increase business taxes. Most of the population is in favor of it, but you can predict what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
Democrats lead in all the polls by at least ten points, except one.. Fox News. That is with a margin of error… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image