Capitalism Quote by Tony Judt

“As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would…

— Tony Judt

Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

— James Cook

Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.

— Mark Carney

“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material…

— Tony Judt

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

— Mao Zedong

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its…

— Zygmunt Bauman

After the rise of Thatcherism, the smashing of the trade unions, and the post-cold war sense that any alternative to free-market capitalism was permanently…

— Owen Jones

“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to spend billions…

— Howard Zinn

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

— Ludwig von Mises

“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

I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a…

— Richard Branson

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom

— Milton Friedman