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Capitalism Quotes by Pope Francis
- How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the…
- Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses…
- Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is…
- Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice…
- Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain,…
- The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives…
- While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few.…
- In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before…
- Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all…
- Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will…
- We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving…
More Capitalism Quotes
- WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. — Julian Assange
- Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou
- Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips… — Simon Baker
- Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. — Honore de Balzac
- You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is… — Bernard Baruch
- Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the… — John Berger
- Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. — Frank Borman
- I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American… — Warren Buffett
- I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism. — Jeb Bush
- Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. — Orson Scott Card
- Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. — Fidel Castro