Rachel Carson Quotes

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

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.

There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere. ...In every case the opposition could only be overcome--peacefully or by force--because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality. ...That this promise was an illusion we all know

Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.

There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.

I do believe in the free market.

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

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.

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

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

A Socialist Government cannot carry on a capitalist system better than the capitalists. The men bred by a capitalist system are men of affairs who understand their business. They are not apprentices.

With the laborers of England generally, does not the moral coercion of want subject their will as despotically to that of their employer, as the physical constraint does the soldier, the seaman, or the slave?