Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet. – Alice Walker
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. – C. L. R. James
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. – C. L. R. James
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. – Christopher Lasch
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. – Anatoly Chubais
Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. – Bill Gates
Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other ‘isms,’ it’s far superior. – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft. – Bill Gates
We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well. – Bill Gates
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down. – Bill Gates
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. – Eugene V. Debs
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped. – Pankaj Mishra
Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status. – Edmund Phelps
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. – David Korten
I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no. – Dambisa Moyo
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. – Paul Hawken
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do… We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things. – Nathan Myhrvold
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. – P. J. O’Rourke
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. – George Bernard Shaw