I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The values imposed on you, such as statism, motherland, religion, traditions etc - are the instruments to manipulate you. Don't idolize the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most… — Doug Henwood Copy Share Image
“My children are monsters, Kiro thought. And I am responsible. Perhaps if I had read them the haikus of Basho when they… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“a free economy is an economy run by free beings. And free beings are responsible beings. Economic transactions in a regime of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
I begin with the renaming of the system. It used to be capitalism. But that evokes [Karl] Marx and [John] Rockefeller. So… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of co-ordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion—the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“the elite use socialism as a consolidation and control mechanism. Allen describes Socialism as "a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking… — Mark M. Rich Copy Share Image
“A great deal of the talk about laissez faire [in the nineteenth century] must be discounted, or at least put into its… — Vito Tanzi Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say,… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“The law of socialist economy is this: from each according to his exploitability, to the nomenklatura according to its greed.” — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image