David Remnick Quotes

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

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

Capitalism will kill competition.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

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

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.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

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.

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

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

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

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

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

Capitalism is so successful economically that it creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

What we call Monopoly is Business at the end of its journey. The concentration of wealth, the wiping out of the middle classes, are other names for it. To get it is, in the world of affairs, the chief end of man.

Pullman, who has grown so rich from the toil of his workingmen, that he can riot in luxury, while he heartlessly turns these very workmen out of their tenements into the streets and leave to the tender mercies of corporate greed.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Hirelings of monopoly