If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The real problem is the total capitulation of German social democracy to capitalism, reflected and symbolized by actual extreme center coalition governments… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Are there no American citizens sympathizing with whiteguard emigres who conduct propaganda in favor of capitalism, against the Soviets? Then what does… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a pretty word. Democracy is a captivating magic. The oppressed classes always wanted and the oppressing ones always promised a… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“The big guys who ran things didn't want you thinking or feeling. It slowed down production. They wanted you scared and working… — Bill Ripley Copy Share Image
“Lately it's started to seem to me that here in America our fetishization of self-reliance has taken a wrong turn and has… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The Services offer the cleanest and most natural support to an aggressive foreign policy; expansion of the empire appeals powerfully to the… — J.A. Hobson Copy Share Image
In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully… — Steve Stivers Copy Share Image
We need to take a close look at the relationship between the economic system of Capitalism and the political system of Democracy.… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We… — Majid Kazmi Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing that we capitalists have in common with the communists of old, it’s a pathological obsession with gainful employment.… — Rutger Bregman 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth… — Thomas Piketty 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
We are the United States of America. And it's our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn't… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
![“Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once but gradually, and is therefore one of the great natural designs. When it was found and identified by such men as Adam Smith, who wrote its bible, and Karl Marx, who wrote its obituary too soon…” quote by Garet Garrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19c/garet-garrett-20447_adam_never-was-it-capitalism-imposed-on-life_2956756.jpg)
