John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Quotes

Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

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

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

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

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

The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.

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 the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

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

Capitalism is that form of private property economy in which innovations are carried out by means of borrowed money.

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

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

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

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.

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

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

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them.