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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey1927–1989“The Second Rape of the West”, p. 183
- Nature
Economics is on the side of humanity now.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 18 “The Victors” (p. 185)
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin1814–1876“The Red Association” (1870)
- Freedom
A religion may be discerned in capitalism⁠—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.
Walter Benjamin1892–1940Translated by Rodney Livingstone in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Harvard: 1996)
- Religion
If you can control a people’s economy, you don’t need to worry about its politics; its politics have become irrelevant.
Wendell Berry1934–2026Another Turn of the Crank (1996), “Conserving Forest Communities”
- Politics
A free Health Service is a triumphant example of the superiority of collective action and public initiative applied to a segment of society where commercial principles are seen at their worst.
Aneurin Bevan1897–1960In Place of Fear (1952), p. 85
- Health
It’s class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.
Warren Buffettborn 1930Interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN (25 May 2005)
- Money
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.
Fidel Castro1926–2016Speech (26 July 1991)
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro1926–2016Statement of 1991, during the fall of USSR.
- Politics
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Willa Cather1873–1947“Four Letters: Escapism” first published in Commonweal (17 April 1936)
- Art
- Religion
Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Uses of Diversity
Market signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future catastrophe.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism, April 1, 2020
- Business
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Early career (1897–1929)
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (October 22, 1945) “Demobilisation”
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933