A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that’s basically where I am. – Henry Louis Gates
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. – Howard Rheingold
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. – Hugo Chavez
I’m not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn’t change. – Helen Mirren
The New Deal’s enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. – Garet Garrett
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. – Hugo Chavez
I’ve never been antiregulation. I’ve always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn’t work. – Henry Paulson
We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism. – Hugo Chavez
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. – Herbert Marcuse
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. – Huey Newton
The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud. – James Surowiecki
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don’t want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. – James Hillman
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. – John Ralston Saul
It’s not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. – Joe Slovo
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it’s the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price. – James Surowiecki
Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short. – John Mackey
We’re not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. – Jose Saramago
Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to. – Jeremy Grantham
Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can’t get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, ‘Water, water everywhere – nor any drop to drink.’ – Clayton Christensen
Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want. – Charles Koch
Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations – perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization. – Annalee Newitz
The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia. – Anatoly Chubais
