One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life which stops when physical maturity is reached. If growth continues… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In today's global economy, innovations and improvements to products and services are not only happening more rapidly than ever before in history,… — Bill Capodagli Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system -… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere...… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The dialectical movement of economics, politics, and military power is folding and swirling like weather. Politics is being reshaped by military failure.… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“a basic income is arguably more justified by the need for economic security than by a desire to eradicate poverty. Martin Luther… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Recent evidence confirms that retail prices of essential consumer goods in poor countries are not appreciably lower than in the United States… — Vincent A. Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Authoritarian socialism and capitalism share strong tendencies toward centralizing (one in the hands of the state, the other in the hands of… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an… — Rosser Reeves Copy Share Image
Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they… — Ha-Joon Chang 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
Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
“Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their… — Walther Rathenau Copy Share Image
The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
One of my favorite indicators of the near-term trend for the economy is auto sales, since folks tend to buy a car… — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
For many food poverty is the product of a toxic combination of low wages, austerity economics, spiralling food prices and lengthy delays… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and… — Allen West Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key… — Michael Moss 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