“It’s all part of the life-cycle of an economy. First it’s lawless capitalism until that starts to impede growth. Next comes regulation,… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual consists in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectuals theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectuals… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen… — L. Neil Smith 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
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
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
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“So, when free-market economists say that a certain regulation should not be introduced because it would restrict the ‘freedom’ of a certain… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
“The political perspective of this book, ironically, is the progeny of the progressive potential of capitalism as an historical system. The joint… — Samuel Bowles Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“We often can't perform or uphold the identity category, and if we step outside the boundaries of the group, or if we… — Stacy Jane Grover 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 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 rules of workplace democracy are founded in solidarity and mutual trust. They are at the core of a historic process which… — Seymour Melman 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
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
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
“Socialism is not a competition; it is not a monopoly, either. Socialism is not a private property; it is not a state… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
What the Democrats have to understand is that while we do need to reform our regulation and we do need more restrictions,… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“capitalism is an economic system in which individuals or corporate groups have the right to make private decisions and to acquire private… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“Our aim was not to create profit, but jobs,' Sanchez Gordillo explained to me. This philosophy runs directly counter to the late-capitalist… — Dan Hancox Copy Share Image
For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
“These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism's carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Free-market capitalism doesn't pick economic winners and losers based on the president's economic nostalgia, and limited-government conservatism isn't marked a top-down ideological… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Once we link up and network, there will be new institutions, new beginnings, and a change in the economy because capitalism is… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values:… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe… — Gary North Copy Share Image
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
