Unchecked Capitalism Quotes

#1. 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.

Mohsin Hamid

#2. I didn't want him to move on. I wanted to go backwards, back in time and hug him. Never let him go.

Penelope Ward

#3. Everyone liked Robin. He liked Robin. How could he fail to like her, after everything they had been through together? However, from the very first he had told himself: this far and no further. A distance must be maintained. Barriers must remain in place.

Robert Galbraith

#4. The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

Matt Taibbi

#5. There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.

Michael Jackson

#6. The method of science is logical and rational; the method of the humanities is one of imagination, sympathetic understanding, 'indwelling.

Andrew Louth

#7. A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. What can I say. We like our women only mostly tamed. Where's the fun in a woman who'd never stab you just a little, if you pissed her off bad enough?

Kit Rocha

#9. Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

Serj Tankian

#10. One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

Horace

#11. Biathletes need to eat 6.000 calories a day: six thousand! That's the equivalent of 2 pounds of butter, 70 slices of bread, 112 eggs, 86 tabs of yogurts, 28 potatoes, 117 biscuits and 21 TWIX bars. On that basis, I could be an Olympic biathlete!

Jeremy Clarkson

#12. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of ... but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

#14. Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.

Mark Carney

#15. Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence.

Isak Dinesen

#16. The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there.

Ethan Suplee

#17. I'm just a musician and a record producer.

Quincy Jones

#18. The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

Alfred Rupert Hall

#19. True courage is in knowing that there is nothing to scare you.

Debasish Mridha