Unbridled Capitalism Quotes

Communism has had its success in this century as a reaction against a certain type of unbridaled capitalism.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

They will stop at nothing to enrich the power of Corporations

Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

Liberalism is a cancer; it's a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.

L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Consumerism is not simply a market strategy. It has become a demonic spiritual force among us

The capitalist free market is a marvelous servant but a disastrous master. In one of the greatest achievements of the second half of this [the 20th] century, a few favored societies learned to convert it from master to servant. The danger now is that a smug and vainglorious capitalism will not remember the lesson.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.