Tommy Douglas Quotes

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

The wealthiest in this country have never had it so good. They want more, and more, and more, and more, and they don’t care how many children they have to step on to get it..

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

Amassing huge profits, sometimes at the deficit of human welfare, is the motivating factor of western capitalism.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

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

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Well, 'They Live' was a primal scream against Reaganism of the '80s. And the '80s never went away. They're still with us. That's what makes 'They Live' look so fresh - it's a document of greed and insanity. It's about life in the United States then and now. If anything, things have gotten worse.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

It’s no surprise that a global economy creates a global class conflict…. All markets create classes and class conflicts.

Those who claim they are the prisoners of the laws of economics, only testify that they are prisoners of the idol.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

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

Capitalism carries in itself war, like clouds carry rain.

Capitalism is very unfair but it is the only system that works.

There is a profound unfairness embedded in the economic system.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.