Lobsang Tenzin Quotes

Most human beings are defined in terms of their capacity to consume.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.

It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

Capitalism works.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

The land of the capitalists…

Capitalism is economic Darwinism…free enterprise is code for individualistic amorality…the marketplace is the temple of secular humanism.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

Capitalism still wants to beat socialism in the end.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process.

The production of goods had become an end in itself and the consumption of goods only the means to further production.

Although capitalism is, in principle, strongly individualistic, it has contributed in practice to reinforce the trend to integration, because it has made our lives more and more interdependent.

A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values sweep into every aspect of human endeavor. It is a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

For many, perhaps most, Americans, markets are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve around an untrammeled market.

You don't have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.

Capitalism is a set of rituals.

Capitalism does not require us to hold a particular set of cognitive beliefs; it only requires that we act as if certain beliefs (about money, commodities etc) are true. The rituals are the beliefs, beliefs which, at the level of subjective self-description, may well be disavowed.

The economy is designed to serve the individual.

Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.