E. B. White Quotes

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

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

Capitalism is so successful economically that it creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

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

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

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

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

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

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

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

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

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

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

Inequality is a good thing. You can’t have a capitalistic system without it. But we have excessive inequality now. Virtually all the benefits are going to a small group of people.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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