Lech Walesa Quotes

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

We are often told that capitalism is in crisis, but look around the world and you'll see that it has never been so buoyant.

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

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

It’s hard to be a fan of the free market these days when the free market has just driven the economy over the cliff.

In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

We're facing a crisis that we have not provoked, yet we are the main victims of the greatest crisis since the 1930s. It's not been generated by factors external to the system, but by factors that are of the very essence of the system: exacerbated individualism, deregulation, competition, and so on.

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.

We saw that the free market economy was not enough when the Harvard boys failed to deliver free market capitalism to Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed.

From time to time, capitalism has a tendency to implode.

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

I'm a capitalist. I believe in the proper working of the free market. That's why I found the scandals of 2008, the banks, Libor, absolutely abhorrent.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.

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.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

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

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

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