We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The idea of a socialism with a human face was something that I absolutely could support, because it was my idea from… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not the same as social democracy, the political system that created Sweden’s welfare state.” — Christina Johansson Robinowitz Copy Share Image
I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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
“Forty-five years, these people were provided for. Not with much, you understand, but there weren't beggars in the streets or homeless people.… — Annie Ward Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
What appeals to me in The Deuce is some of the same things that made me interested in The Wire, which is… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (“exploitation”) are not the “unprincipled violations of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Socialism lost its way largely when it became decoupled from the processes of democracy. My vision of a socially just society is… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We know that global capitalism, and the commercially driven culture that comes with it, can be a powerful solvent, but many of… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.” — David L. Weimer Copy Share Image
Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind…he trades with the same… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.” — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
The market economy of its own cannot destroy socialism. But to build socialism with success, it is necessary to develop a market… — Nguyen Phu Trong Copy Share Image
Socialism has been an abject failure across the face of the globe, millions have suffered under socialism, and yet we're not doing… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
