Richard Wolff Quotes

#1. The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

Betty Friedan

#2. The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The word "cooperative" means the workplace itself is organized cooperatively, rather than in the conventional capitalistic, hierarchical form.

Richard D. Wolff

#3. Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

Vernon Duke

#4. In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free pass to indulge all of its weaknesses and darker tendencies.

Richard D. Wolff

#5. In the fifteen or so years he has known her, A.J. thinks Ismay has aged like an actress should: from Juliet to Ophelia to Gertrude to Hecate.

Gabrielle Zevin

#6. The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

Richard D. Wolff

#7. People cling all to an idea precisely because the reality is so different. The myth of equal opportunity is more attractive, more beautiful, more something people want to hold on, the more they know it's slipping away.

Richard Wolff

#8. Everyone has their 'Showgirls.' We remember the great films actors have been in, and the rest get forgotten. But occasionally, people like to revisit the ones that get swept aside.

Kyle MacLachlan

#9. George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

Martin Sheen

#10. I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.

Lauren Conrad

#11. Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.

Richard D. Wolff

#12. If you lived with a roommate as unstable as capitalism ...

Richard D. Wolff

#13. Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

Sebastien Foucan

#14. The fact-finding mission was now the traditional Washington substitute for policy.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#15. It's pretty lonely and sad to be single. Every night was the same for me, I'd go home and curl up in bed with my favorite book. Well, actually it was a magazine.

Tom Arnold

#16. Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.

Azim Premji

#17. Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Peter Thomas Bauer

#18. I will veto any tax increase.

Susana Martinez

#19. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming.

Anna Quindlen

#20. To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

Richard D. Wolff

#21. Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.

Craig Brown

#22. I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

Diahann Carroll