Quotes About The Failure Of Capitalism

#1. The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness. - Author: Adrienne Rich

#2. My girlfriends are my life, but I'm also one of those girls who can hang out with the guys. - Author: Sophia Bush

#3. The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. - Author: P. J. O'Rourke

#4. All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market. - Author: Ludwig Von Mises

#5. Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward. Fortunemagazine{115} - Author: Thomas Sowell

#6. Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them. - Author: Celine Dion

#7. The credit crunch was based on a climate (the post-Cold War victory party of free-market capitalism), a problem (the sub-prime mortgages), a mistake (the mathematical models of risk) and a failure, that of the regulators. - Author: John Lanchester

#8. What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy. - Author: Ludwig Von Mises

#9. They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Author: Fidel Castro

#10. I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell. - Author: Charlie Munger

#11. Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility. - Author: James Surowiecki

#12. If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'? - Author: Peter Boettke

#13. Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. - Author: Allan H. Meltzer

#14. Keynes declared capitalism the best system ever devised to achieve a civilized economic society. But he recognized in it two major faults - its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes. - Author: Robert B. Reich

#15. You can go out and you can run ads all day long on Donald Trump and what he says about women, and you haven't even gotten close to separating his supporters from him, 'cause that's not why they're there. - Author: Rush Limbaugh

#16. Recipe for a Worry

Take one pound morbid preoccupation and mix vigorously with one cup overactive imagination. In a separate bowl, add one part hypersensitivity to three parts increased hormone activity. Fold together and let stew for hours on end. - Author: Emily Colas

#17. [C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich. - Author: James Grant

#18. Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. - Author: Howard Zinn

#19. We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there. - Author: Rupert Murdoch

#20. For an American like me, growing up linked to a very different food chain, yet one that is also rooted in a field of corn, not to think of himself as a corn person suggests either a failure of imagination or a triumph of capitalism. - Author: Michael Pollan

#21. Whatever you do, dancing or whatever, you got to hit. Don't sleep on it. Just hit. - Author: Savion Glover

#22. The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism. - Author: Alfred Kazin