Capitalism Quote by Pope Pius IX

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

— Alexander Berkman

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

— Rene Dubos

“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the…

— Hans Zinsser

“Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. ‘For want of a nail…the kingdom was…

— Paul Kriwaczek

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.

— Carl Sagan

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship…

— Anthony de Mello

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

— Jon Ronson

The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I…

— Luis Walter Alvarez

But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the…

— Hans Zinsser

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible,…

— Albert Camus

“The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature.”

— Steven Magee