We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system. — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The difference between a martyr and a cannon fodder is not far from the difference between a scout and a spy. — Ilkin Santak 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
Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course.… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Well, it depends which planned economies you mean. There are lots of planned economies―the United States is a planned economy, for example.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider Copy Share Image
A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better… — Peter Singer 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
One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Socialism is based on the notion that collaboration and sharing are more productive, humane, and moral than competition and privatization.” — Eric Michael Moberg 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
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
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Why should the idea of Western liberal democracy automatically imply unregulated free-market capitalism? — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
ESG investing often marches under the same banner as 'stakeholder capitalism,' which maintains that corporations owe obligations to a range of constituencies,… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia. — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism — Frank Knight Copy Share Image