Judy Collins Quotes

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but is the current form of capitalism the best way of it working?

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in the Black Lives Matter movement. We see it among black youth who are now struggling and trying to make connections internationally with other groups and trying to figure out what's going on in the world and the ways things like police violence and systemic violence all come together under neoliberalism.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably means also production for the masses.

Brazil was a capitalist society without capital.

Democracy and capitalism have both been hacked.

I don't have anything against corporate America. I mean, I guess there's something about living in a capitalist society that can get kind of terrifying at times.

We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

Because of my politics, I don't necessarily think that the independent capitalist is that much better than the multinational capitalist; it's just that the independent capitalist hasn't grown as big yet.

The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in essence, is retrogressive or unrepublican, but because in fact, it is unrepublican, and for that reason retrogressive also.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.