Unchecked Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

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.

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.

The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.

Our civilization is built on competition, and competition evolves itself crime to so acute an infatuation has the lunacy of self-interest carried our dominant opinion.

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

[Americans are] trampled to death beneath the iron heel [of monopolies and trusts.]

A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.

This place is being corrupted by money. Anyone who does not believe this is not living on this planet…. Anybody with their eyes open knows that we have a problem.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.

They will stop at nothing to enrich the power of Corporations

Never in the history of the world have corporations and monopolies been allowed to exist and thrive and extort money from the people as they are doing right now under our very noses.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred well-placed business men decide to do it.

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

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.

The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

Corporate greed, where they need more and more and more, regardless of how much they already have, is ruining the economy of this country.

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.

Little by little, The Depression era regulations that had served America so well were rolled back and finance became the dominant force that it is today. The shifts were bi-partisan and, to be fair, seemed like good idea at the time. But they also came with unintended consequences.

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

Corporations gorged with profit ... menace the stability of society.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.