Thomas Woods Quotes

Freedom" is a grand word, but under the banner of Free Trade the most predatory wars were conducted; under the banner of "free labor" the toilers were robbed.

The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

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

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

In general the principle of the World Trade Organization … is that sovereignty and democratic rights have to be subordinated to the rights of investors

The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its greatest danger.

We are told that we must open up, that trade and commerce must be totally free. Free for whom? For rogue speculators. For anarchists wanting to destroy weak countries in their crusade for open societies, to force us to submit to the dictatorship of international manipulators.

There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation, and pernicious influence of wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations, and a means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of industry and dry all streams.

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

The “natural laws of economics” are in fact tools in the hands of the avaricious and the greedy for keeping down and oppressing the laboring classes.

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

We are often told that capitalism is in crisis, but look around the world and you'll see that it has never been so buoyant.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

Capitalism is in crisis.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

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

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

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.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.