“I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.” — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism --… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community;… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“By extending the idea of natural law to the economic sphere - an inevitable but fundamental error - they (18th century philosophes)… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
I was thinking what happens if I break my leg today? What can I do to prevent me going back to the… — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naive as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
We spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our loved ones, and yet we don't have that many novels… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Ironically, then, by the 1930s large segments of the radical Left had come to agree with what national socialists and fascists had… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Take the example of our spinner. We have seen that, to daily reproduce his labouring power, he must daily reproduce a value… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems,… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is the lord of time, but time is not money [like we use to say]. That is a brutality, because time… — Antonio Candido Copy Share Image
The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results. — James Cook Copy Share Image
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not the same as social democracy, the political system that created Sweden’s welfare state.” — Christina Johansson Robinowitz Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The idea of a socialism with a human face was something that I absolutely could support, because it was my idea from… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We're building a movement. It's undeniably a work in progress, but there's a fundamental desire to see capitalism to do something different. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image