Capitalism Quote by Martin Wolf

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

— Robertson Davies

“I got a letter from a sappy woman a while back - she knew I was sappy too, which is to say a lifelong…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt…

— George Orwell

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had…

— George Orwell

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate…

— Theodore Guerin

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

— Walter Benjamin

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

— Allan H. Meltzer

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

— Pope Pius XI

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if…

— R. H. Tawney

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

— Alain Badiou

“Nothing is more unpopular today than the free market economy, i.e., capitalism. Everything that is considered unsatisfactory in present-day conditions is charged to capitalism.…

— Ludwig von Mises