Economics Quote by Amor Towles

“It said something about the ability of the free marketplace to mold people’s behavior into a socially acceptable pattern. For this was capitalism at…

— Michael Lewis

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The essence of modern capitalism is not slavery of the antique pattern but the possession of the expensive tools of production by a small…

— Francis Stuart Campbell

“The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people’s greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need to, in…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“In a way, finance was even better than art. It was nothing but an expression of potential, of power, of our present moment in…

— Jade Chang

“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally transformed.”

— Thomas Piketty

“Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained…

— Bertrand Russell

“They had managed to convert their wealth, which had originally been in the form of factories or stores or other demanding enterprises, into a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for. Perfection was…

— Joshua Ferris

“Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought about nothing…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as…

— Theodore Dreiser