Corbin Bernsen Quotes

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

Capitalism still wants to beat socialism in the end.

America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Capitalism without Judaism, Christianity, or some other moral basis is just pure greed.

Capitalism is economic Darwinism…free enterprise is code for individualistic amorality…the marketplace is the temple of secular humanism.

Capitalism carries in itself war, like clouds carry rain.

It [industrial capitalism] came to be believed in as a gospel, ... from which it was regarded as little short of immoral to depart.

We must expect for a long time yet to see capitalists still striving to obtain the highest possible profits. But observe, that the passion for wealth is certainly in some senses new. It grew up very rapidly at the beginning of the present century; it was not so strong in the last century, when men were much more content to lead a quiet easy life of leisure. The change has really influenced the relations between men; but in the future it is quite possible that the scramble for wealth may grow less intense, and a change in the opposite direction take place.

For many, perhaps most, Americans, markets are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve around an untrammeled market.

Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.

I contend that the reason why America is not as happy as it was in 1950 or 1920 or whenever, 100 years ago, is because our priorities are wrong, but it has nothing to do with exploiting the planet and has everything to do with losing faith in God.

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.