Kwasi Kwarteng Quotes

Capitalism is in crisis.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

The high-tech, globalized capitalism of the 21st century is very different from the postwar version of capitalism that performed so magnificently for the middle classes of the Western world.

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

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

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

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.

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

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.

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

The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.

A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values sweep into every aspect of human endeavor. It is a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

Neoliberalism is hard to define. It could refer to intensified resource extraction, financialization, austerity, or something more ephemeral - a way of life - in which collective ideals of citizenship give way to marketized individualism and consumerism.

While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a matter of hard work.

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

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

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

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

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much money, but the only way we've figured out how to generate wealth in this world is through the market economy.

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

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

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