Carolyn Porco Quotes

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

I don't think capitalism can survive.

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.

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

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

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

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

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

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

Governments' thirst for investment is compounded by the insatiable appetite of employers for new markets and a 'competitive' labor force, by which they mean cheap and endlessly exploitable.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

Most of the world leadership today is motivated by profit.

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

Capitalism will kill competition.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

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.