In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating. — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
In 2003, Helmut Schmidt said: Predatory capitalism exists, we have to civilize it and we can do that via Europe. He was… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth?… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
Property, as a general social institution, well-divided property, having disappeared and Capitalism having taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years priests, rabbis and muftis explained that humans cannot overcome famine, plague and war by their own efforts. Then… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A predominantly voluntary exchange economy, on the other hand, has within it the potential to promote both prosperity and human freedom. It… — Milton Freidman Copy Share Image
“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom… — Charles Moore Copy Share Image
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“It was not for nothing that Adam Smith wrote that “people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the Calvinist guilt about capitalism or mercantilism. But, I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as… — Momus Copy Share Image
“Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome. — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
“Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When I say ‘capitalism,’ I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism” — Alex Ayres Copy Share Image
“The problem with capitalism is capitalists eventually run out of your money.” — John Gabriel Copy Share Image
Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital. — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
