“Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If the Republican Party continues to take the view that there must be no tax increases, we're stuck. Capitalism can't work without… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Neoliberalism is an extreme form of capitalism that started to become dominant in the 1980s, under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, but… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Living under capitalism, I like learning to feel comfortable with activity that does not result in success — since non-success is the… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
Another similarity of Brexit and Trump's campaigns was an attack on so-called elites. This is not so much a failure of capitalism… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
In the pre-capitalist world, everyone had a place. It might not have been a very nice place, even maybe a horrible place,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“One thing you'll learn when you're in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there's really… — John Niven Copy Share Image
The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“It is more important to look holistically at the root of why anyone would want to avoid work so badly that they’d… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
“In the late 1970s, growth in Western economies began to slow down and returns on capital began to decline. Governments came under… — Jason Hickel Copy Share Image
Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“So everybody lives the way they're told to. The way they have to. Everybody most of the time. Not ever all the… — Helen Potrebenko Copy Share Image
Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution We… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You'll find many markets where bottlers of Pepsi and Coke both make a lot of money and many others where they destroy… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Clearly, for capitalism to work properly we must expect some upward normalisation of interest rates at some future point, to provide greater… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
After the rise of Thatcherism, the smashing of the trade unions, and the post-cold war sense that any alternative to free-market capitalism… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto.… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour… — Jacques Ranciere Copy Share Image
