I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, which was efficient but also a highly controlling device. There was a problem with the assembly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
We are headed toward 'perfect capitalism,' when the laws of supply and demand become exact, because everyone knows everything about a product,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“If all the men and women in the countryside had their daily bread assured, and their daily needs already satisfied, who would… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“It would be difficult to find in the United States any profession so dedicated to socialism as that of educators, and difficult… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it.… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Bastiat (1801–1850) was a strikingly clear-minded early advocate of what came to be known as liberal economics, whose central idea is that… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
We kind of know that food is necessary to survive. But our ways of connecting with food have been, in many ways,… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
“The flaw of Fabianism, and the reason it never became a mass movement on the Left, is that the revolutionary appetite will… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Jeff Klein, one of the earliest champions of Conscious Capitalism, offers a highly practical yet profoundly intuitive blueprint for achieving your purpose-and… — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
“Why does socialist central planning not work? The means of production are not held privately, so there cannot be any exchange markets… — Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr Copy Share Image
When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
It's the aspirations that capitalism is promoting as beautiful, positive attributes that are dangerous. All that is in the bedrooms of the… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Just as in our bodies, every cell must first be "Celfish"; solely responsible for its own survival and once those conditions are… — Carl T. Johnson Copy Share Image
That's what's happening now. The world is being held up a mirror: "All roads lead here. Do you like it?" A lot… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“[Capitalism assumed] that from the beginning all men are equal. If that were so everyone would be equipped with the same working… — Knut Wicksell Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“On the one hand you have the warm-hearted unthinking Socialist, the typical working-class Socialist, who only wants to abolish poverty and does… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“When the American labor movement rose up in the 1830s to demand higher wages, landed capital did not lock arms with industrial… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What was the most important thing I learned from Chomsky? That capitalism compels us to work ourselves to death in order to… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can… — George Nethercutt Copy Share Image
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“We're all prostitutes if you think about it. The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousness. You sell your body or you… — M. Thomas Gammarino Copy Share Image
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