“Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting. — William Kirby Copy Share Image
The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal'… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism. — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can… — George Nethercutt Copy Share Image
Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
We cannot say that everything developed in capitalist countries is of a capitalist nature. For instance, technology, science - even advanced production… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism seems to ramp up every day, making it ever more difficult for anyone but corporations to own and run things and… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
People are interested in authentic long-term, socialist goals, which is not what is usually called socialism. They should be thinking through carefully… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The Austrian born Von Hayek has long been under the control of David Rockefeller, and Von Hayek theories have been fairly widely… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
“But what socialists seriously contemplate the equal division of existing capital resources among the people of the world?” — Friedrich Hayek Copy Share Image
The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in… — David Farr Copy Share Image
No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“People who claim, for example, that capitalism can overcome its dependence on fossil fuel have either not researched the question or they… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Some religions, such as Christianity and Nazism, have killed millions out of burning hatred. Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the… — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies. — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer… — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form… There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
The capitalist priority is efficiency of capital and profitability, which is generally inconsistent with protecting the vulnerabilities of people and nature. — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
