For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Accurate presentation of thoughts through the correct expressions of words - is an art accumulated for years. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth century Capitalism? It needs men… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. The inherent vice of capitalism… — Sir Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself. — David Harvey 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
We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the… — Andi Zeisler Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image