Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
The truth is we have a political system and an economic system controlled by a few extremely wealthy people. Not Barack Obama,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist,… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
China reformed its state sector before, in the late 1990s. Tens of millions were laid off at the time. That was scary… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
This same economic system, based on short-term growth and endless profits is also the reason for pretty much everything else that is… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax.… — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
In the United States economic system you can lose big or you can win big. If you lose you wind up wearing… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
“nobody really knows what the job market, the family or the ecology will look like in 2050, or which religions, economic systems… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological - social - psychological - economic system. We treat it as if it were… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
