Kwaku Person-Lynn Quotes

Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.

Free enterprise really means rich people getting richer: they have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…Capitalism is destroying the earth

Capitalists are generating death.

The Western capitalist system is sunk to its neck in human problems. Despite the copious wealth that it has at its disposal, it is completely incapable of establishing social justice.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

…In certain parts of Latin America, the seizure of the vast majority of the wealth by an oligarchy of owners bereft of social consciousness, the practical absence or the shortcomings of a rule of law, military dictators making a mockery of elementary human rights, the corruption of certain powerful officials, the savage practices of some foreign capital interests constitute factors which nourish a passion for revolt among those who thus consider themselves the powerless victims of a new colonialism in the technological, financial, monetary, or economic order.

Capitalists personally are often the mildest-mannered men that ever shattered a family or drained a workingman of his marrow.

The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its greatest danger.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists—they're too greedy.

The selfish spirit of commerce which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality …. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state.

Capitalists are no more capable of self sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself by his own bootstraps.

Capitalism is very unfair but it is the only system that works.