“Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized proletariat for sustenance without relation to the product of its labor; a demand which threatens the very existence of PROFIT (on the necessary presumption of which Capitalism reposes). The second, and immediately graver danger is that of a revolt for the confiscation of the means of production.” FirstsMeanTwoWisdomPoliticsExistenceEconomyGenerationsDangerProductsDemandCapitalismLaborRelationProfitProductionsMortalsOrganizedLiberalismThreatenedPerilRevoltReposePresumptionProletariatSustenance Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.” MayTwoWisdomFormPoliticsHoursResponsibilityAcceptingEconomyHigherDemandApproachSolutionsCapitalismLaborPropertyUnionsGrantedRadicalPermanentLiberalismInsecurityDivisionWagesUnnaturalPensionLabor Union Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.” IfsHumansLongMatterFacesValuesOrderQualityMoralDemocracyEconomicConditionsDemandBehaviorLowsCapitalismAbsenceSellingOperationsEnterpriseContradictionDictatorshipEfficiencyFree MarketUnwillingRobustHuman FreedomMultinationalsFree Market Capitalism Author:William Greider
“If we take the pope at his word and socialism is highly preferable to capitalism and he was really concerned about these people, he would demand they go home. He would demand they return to their homelands wherever they are, if they were socialist.” PeopleIfsHomeReturnDemandCapitalismConcernedSocialismSocialistPopeHomeland Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.” WantSeemsAnswersEconomicDemandCapitalismConsumerismOverconsumptionDissatisfied Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources. Capital, in corporate hands, can move anywhere and thus demand and get the utmost in concessions and privileges as well as the freedom to operate in the interest of ever-increasing wealth and assets.” WellsHandsMovingInterestWealthLandDemandCapitalismResourcesConcernedPrivilegeProductionsDrivingCorporateAssetsDistributionConcessions Author:Eric Kierans
“Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.” MenAbilityLibertyProductsDemandAchievementAmbitionCapitalismTradeRewardsEvery ManLikesRationality Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition) Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.” MenGivingLibertyAchieveDemandGiving UpCapitalismEntitled Author:Ayn Rand
“The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for their loyalty to the state was to offer the latter a small piece of the pie.” StatesClassPiecesPromiseOffersDemandCapitalismRewardsLoyaltyLatterPieWorking ClassSmall PiecesCadreQuid Pro Quo Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.” ThinkingWayShouldTryingBelieveHelpingI BelieveGrowthCompanyFailingDemandModelsDeserveCapitalismResourcesDestructionBlameAcceptedEndlessDestruction Of Nature Author:Yvon Chouinard