Capitalism Quote by Noam Chomsky

Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority,…

— Noam Chomsky

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values,…

— Noam Chomsky

“If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ’s teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated to be…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.”

— Bryant McGill

“The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people’s greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need to, in…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come…

— Hilaire Belloc

The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none…

— Muhammad Yunus

“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…

— Murray Bookchin

“Capitalism is based on the concept that in order for someone to succeed, someone else has to suffer.”

— Tawni O'Dell

In 2003, Helmut Schmidt said: Predatory capitalism exists, we have to civilize it and we can do that via Europe. He was right. We…

— Martin Schulz

“It said something about the ability of the free marketplace to mold people’s behavior into a socially acceptable pattern. For this was capitalism at…

— Michael Lewis

“I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are…

— Benito Mussolini