Frank Rich Quotes

I don't have anything against corporate America. I mean, I guess there's something about living in a capitalist society that can get kind of terrifying at times.

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

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

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

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.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

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

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.

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.

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

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.