Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought… — Rose Pastor Stokes Copy Share Image
Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I know I’m not the patron saint of etiquette and me attitude stinks of arse, but at least I don’t dictate to… — Rupert Dreyfus Copy Share Image
“I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's… — Charles E. Coughlin Copy Share Image
In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you… — Michael Burawoy Copy Share Image
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class,… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
“In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of… — Carne Ross Copy Share Image
Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“The final proof that this alien indoctrination which begins in nursery school is based on the splitting of the family is that… — Mariarosa Dalla Costa Copy Share Image
“Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned truism, is that the free… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Socialism is not a way of life. It is an unworkable formula which would apply to robots but not to men and… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
'Bernie versus Bernie,' for me, is these two extremes of capitalism. It's Bernie Sanders, the ultimate socialist, and Bernie Madoff, the ultimate… — Kerby Jean-Raymond Copy Share Image
Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements… — Andi Zeisler Copy Share Image
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image