Controlled Quote by Ronald Reagan

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to…

— Jacques Ellul

In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived.…

— Jimmy Carter

Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments…

— Richard Ebeling

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

— Quintilian

“In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn’t unite;…

— Katherine Boo

“Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.”

— Ivan Illich

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian,…

— Karl Lagerfeld

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and…

— Henry George

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

— James Tobin

One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many…

— Jim Stanford