Capitalism Quotes · Page 65

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

— Allan H. Meltzer

“. . . then life began, and since then we remember each dumpster, abandoned house, and foot-chase by retail security. At night,…

— Nigel Davis

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

— Karl Marx

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

— Will Rogers

It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name…

— Tom Tancredo

Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is…

— Pope Francis

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and…

— Andy Grove

The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they…

— William Greider

“It is more important to look holistically at the root of why anyone would want to avoid work so badly that they’d…

— Louis Yako

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

— Ludwig von Mises

FDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the…

— Henry Giroux

“Future historians, pondering changes in British society from the 1980s onwards, will struggle to account for the following curious fact. Although British…

— Stefan Collini

The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

— George Reisman

Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,…

— Donald Rooum

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

— Peter L. Berger

Today, capitalism faces a deep structural crisis.

— Kshama Sawant

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

— Bruce Rauner

One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money,…

— Richard J. Roberts

In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.

— Chrystia Freeland

Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

If a person is ashamed of himself, it means that the next stage of development has come.

— Ilkin Santak

We need a break from Capitalism,

— Kshama Sawant

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

— David Harvey

The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers…

— Avram Noam Chomsky