Capitalism Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalism Economics Sound Theory
Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work. — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The problem with capitalism is... Eventually you will have run other people out of their money — Jorebungley Copy Share Image
The trouble with capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I believe in capitalism as long as there's a strong rule of law around it. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system. — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.” — David L. Weimer Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
