Community Quote by Leo Tolstoy

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different…

— Noam Chomsky

“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Social self-determination does not and cannot exist in a capitalist society: capital, in all its forms, is the negation of self-determination.”

— John Holloway

“No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the…

— Kenneth T. Jackson

“When there is greed within; a person shall fall into societal influence.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Ecology is far more important and 'valuable' than Economy which is entirely subservient and subordinate.”

— Robert Blakemore

“There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were…

— Amadeo Bordiga

“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?”

— Dan Ariely

“If society asks more of us, and arranges its social institutions appropriately, it will get more.”

— Barry Schwartz

“It is society as a whole that assigns value and prestige to what people do;”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“until the late twentieth century—the scarce resource in business was financial capital. If you had it, you had the means to create more wealth,…

— Geoff Colvin

“The flames of a new economic evolution run around us, and we turn to find that competition has killed competition, that corporations are grown…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin