The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor'… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Sex work is a completely unregulated industry and to make the affront even worse, the product and the labourers are the same… — David Simon Copy Share Image
It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic nature of both capitalism and our government assures us that there are no checks and balances when it comes to… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
“Under the neoliberal worldview, governments exist in order to create the optimal conditions for private interests to maximize their profits and wealth,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“A man who devotes his time and efforts, under his own direction, at his own pleasure, from his own property, in order… — Seth Daniel Parker Copy Share Image
“In the United States […] the two main business-dominated parties, with the support of the corporate community, have refused to reform laws… — Robert W. McChesney Copy Share Image
“To say it's the poor quality of the paint under socialism is correct, but it is not enough. To say it's soft-coal… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
“We begin with the proposition that capitalism is not chiefly an incentive system but an information system. We continue with the recognition,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where neoliberalism thrives is in having done something that we haven't seen before. There is a merging of culture, politics, and power… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power,… — Alex Carey Copy Share Image
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
“Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is neither a person nor an institution. It neither wills nor chooses. It is a logic at work through a mode… — Michel Beaud Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I'm a capitalist. I believe in the proper working of the free market. That's why I found the scandals of 2008, the… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the… — Michael Parenti 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
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
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
“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
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
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