Average Quote by Hilaire Belloc

“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle…

— George Orwell

The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could…

— John Maynard Keynes

...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts…

— Brian Awehali

It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ...…

— Richard M. Weaver

The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“But for another thing, there's no law of nature which says that control over capital has to be in a few hands―that's like saying…

— Noam Chomsky

“Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence, in democratic…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“...To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of the amount…

— Karl Polanyi

“For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms but the…

— Karl Marx

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

— Ludwig von Mises