Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The case for socialism is always made based on an ideal and a promise. The ideal is that humans can lovingly coexist… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it… — Brian Harris Copy Share Image
It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“But in practice, neither believed in friendship or loyalty. They believed in passion, they believed in a hybrid form of social or… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“As I walk through, a kind of amazed mantra starts running through my head: There is no end to the making and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Socialists are convinced socialism will work if it's only managed by the right people. It's one of the reasons so many socialist… — Tom King Copy Share Image
“Any human being should be capable of three things to earn such title: live alone, hunt and drive anything with or without… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
To condemn free-market capitalism because of anything going on today makes no sense. There is no evidence that capitalism exists today. We… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.” — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
Do not trade in your history, your people, your community for the petty callings of capitalist success. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism. — John Blair Copy Share Image
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity. — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image