Age Quote by Aldous Huxley

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no longer soldiers;…

— Edward Gibbon

“in a world increasingly swayed by private wealth and personal brands.”

— Michael Wolff

Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues…

— Raghuram Rajan

Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact:…

— Wendell Berry

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for…

— William Blake

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics…

— David Korten

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

— Philip Wylie

“These two trends—the decline of communal institutions and the expansion of corporate brands in our culture—have had an inverse, seesaw-like relationship to one another…

— Naomi Klein

“Like nineteenth-century European powers, each company does little to impinge on the other’s sphere of influence, competing only on the fringes of empire.”

— Franklin Foer

Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist. If they…

— Ha-Joon Chang