#capitalism

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#labor #work #life

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#capitalism

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#capitalism #change #come #communist #concern

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#capitalism #does #getting #money #more

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#economic-stimulus-act-of- #nature

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. ↗

— Tony Benn

#change #define #finer #here #just

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

— Hugo Chavez

#better #capitalism #convinced #i #i am

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#capitalism #donkey #foundations #i #like

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#also #capitalism #failure #happen #idea