Capitalism Quotes - Page 32

• Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

  Lester R. Brown

  Environmental, May, Failing

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• The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

  Herbert Hoover

  Conservative, Trouble, Greedy

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing of America' - better known as 'the whining of America.' The cause of all the heartache, in the esteemed newspaper of record's view, appears to be heartless corporate chieftains - as well as capitalism itself. Americans are moving forward, despite shackles. The shackles I am referring to are not NAFTA, not corporations. They are, instead, the barriers imposed by our own government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Heart, Government

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• It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy : capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.

  Ayn Rand

  Party, Fighting, Government

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.171, Penguin

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• The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.

  Ayn Rand

  Champion, Majority, Slavery

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.264, Penguin

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• The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

  Chris Hedges

  Evil, Empires, Terrorism

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• Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Rich, Ability

  "Gingrich using the 'Language of the Left'?". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 10, 2012.

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• I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.

  Angela Davis

  Believe, Elude Us, Long

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• The experience of our generation:
  that capitalism will not die a natural death.

  Walter Benjamin

  Our Generation, Generations, Natural

  Walter Benjamin, Rolf Tiedemann (1999). “The Arcades Project”, p.948, Harvard University Press

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• Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

  Ayn Rand

  Expression, Political, Intellectual

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• I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Years, Long

  "Richard Branson: 'Capitalism has lost its way'' by Graham Snowdon, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

  Murray Rothbard

  Expression, Anarchism

  "Exclusive Interview With Murray Rothbard". The New Banner: A Fortnightly Libertarian Journal Interview, www.lewrockwell.com. February 25, 1972.

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• We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Kings, Divine Right

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.115, Small Beer Press

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• You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We're not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.

  Fred Hampton

  Fighting, Fire, Racism

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• True #‎ anarchism will be #‎ capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.

  Murray Rothbard

  Anarchism

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• We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kings, Divine Right, Seems

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.115, Small Beer Press

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• Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

  Frank Chodorov

  Pyramids, Steam Engines, States

  "Frank Chodorov: Champion of Liberty" by Aaron Steelman, fee.org. December 1, 1996.

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• We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person... and we see the results in the crisis we are experiencing! This Home is a place that teaches charity, a "school" of charity, which instructs me to go encounter every person, not for profit, but for love.

  Pope Francis

  Home, School, Giving

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• Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Odds, Two, Limits

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• Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.

  Kenneth Minogue

  People, Ifs

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• 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, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Wealth, Authority

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “On Anarchism”, p.139, New Press, The

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• Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

  Nick Cohen

  Shallow, Marxist, Late

  Nick Cohen (2000). “Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous”, p.126, Verso

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• Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

  Bruce Rauner

  Fighting, Roles, Machines

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• Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.

  Robert Sherrill

  Economic Inequality, Thievery, Economic

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• While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Equality, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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