Bob Rae Quotes

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

Many will see [globalization] as little more than a mask used by certain economic elites for taking away the voice of the individual citizen.

The way to hell is capitalism, neo liberalism and globalization.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

Capitalism might everywhere be spreading havoc, but it is also triumphant everywhere.

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

All the actions of your government have been in favour of the markets, and against the people.

NAFTA is a deal made for the elites of America, Mexico and Canada leaving out the average people of all three companies.