Pastoral Resources

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.