New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Governments don't get elected saying, 'We're going to lower GDP next year,' governments get elected on saying, 'We're going to increase prosperity… — James Righton Copy Share Image
The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
If the job of capitalism is to create wealth for those who put up the capital, no fund group comes close to… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Arnold Harberger, Milton Friedman & Co. Inc., your modest proposal of partial equilibrium for the general good is not without its own… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“We dabble in many things; but the one great real idea of our age, not copied from any other, not pretended, not… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the Calvinist guilt about capitalism or mercantilism. But, I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as… — Momus Copy Share Image
“Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources versus a centralized planning system, frequently referred… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immediate future of the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Trump's defense of white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism is gathering those who support him into a strong solidified base. Since the election of Francis,… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
As members of a social species endowed with large brains, we are natural-born marketers. Capitalism, the economic system that has elevated innumerable… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism,… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I'd be the first to agree that capitalism bestows its blessings unevenly. But that wouldn't persuade me to think it was a… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It's not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Point is, you can't find a country on earth with a higher standard of living. You can't find a country higher than… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US)… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
“At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
