Prestonia Mann Martin Quotes

Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.

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.

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

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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

There is a profound unfairness embedded in the economic system.

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.

Like coal, capitalism has brought many benefits. But, like coal, it now causes more harm than good.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

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.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

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.

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

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.

The American People got fucked. Then tell 'em the American Family got fucked.

The price which society pays for the law of competition is also great; but the advantages of the law are greater still.

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

As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the nation's masters.

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

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

Capitalism will kill competition.