“There is no law of progress, and everything will depend on ourselves. But the actual situation is briefly and fairly summed up… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike… — Susannah York Copy Share Image
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons -… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
But the underdog socialists' biggest problem isn't that they are wrong. They are not. Their biggest problem is that they're dull. Dull… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“What this means is that we should reject not only all manifestations of ‘alternative modernity’ (which amount to a ‘capitalism without capitalism’,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they… — William Greider Copy Share Image
As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
“In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for a great… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the… — Andi Zeisler Copy Share Image
“...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued… — S. E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise… — John Blair Copy Share Image
Once one of the most important steel manufacturing centers in the world, Braddock - what's left of it - solemnly affirms one… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
When I think about capitalism, I think about all the small businesses that were started because we have the opportunity and the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The most common conception of Capitalism is that it is an economic system consisting of privately owned businesses and large corporations that… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image