Carroll O'Connor Quotes

The land of the capitalists…

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

Brazil was a capitalist society without capital.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

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

You can't have a capitalist system and tax capital to death.

Capitalism will kill competition.

Clearly the tenets of capitalism are deeply and fundamentally misunderstood… At the same time that young people are rejecting capitalism and free markets, they celebrate entrepreneurs and free enterprise. This disconnect is at best confusing; at worst it’s troubling.

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

Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of "capital." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

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.

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

Capitalism is in crisis.

I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people.

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

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

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.

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.

During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.