Capitalism Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years, including recurrent speculative episodes. There should…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

One can argue that in the context of history a few years do not matter. But we live in an age in which every…

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the…

— Ayn Rand

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;…

— Ludwig von Mises

We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And we have…

— Hillary Clinton

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which…

— Eisaku Sato

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat…

— Anonymous

The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal…

— Christopher Fry

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux

It's true that tribal rivalries have something to do with political instability. It's also true that those rivalries were exaggerated by colonialism. Colonialism essentially…

— Malidoma Patrice Some

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

— Saul Bellow

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of…

— Richard Engel

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout