“Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.” PeopleIfsWayTwoLeftPlanetsCapitalismMaking Money Author:Jeanette Winterson
“The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.” LittlesTermActingTakenFeetEconomicPlanetsInternetLessonsShapesCapitalismUniversalPlanningCorporationsDepartmentSocialistIndispensableOld FashionedFree MarketAcquisitionParadoxicalStrategistPlannersMergersFree Market CapitalismMergers And Acquisitions Author:James Gleick
“Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who lost this game; now it is the planet.” RealEnoughRunningPastGamesLostPoorEconomyPlanetsCapitalismInfiniteNow And ThenIrrelevantLureInsistingHaresGreyhounds Book:A Short History Of Progress Source: A Short History Of Progress
“You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.; you know that all men today enjoy a higher standard of living than your ancestors did before the age of capitalism. But how do you know that you are the one out of ten who would have lived in the absence of capitalism? The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable.” KnowsMenFactsAgeTodayEnjoyGreaterPlanetsHigherTenStandardsCapitalismMerePopulationValuableProofAbsenceDo You KnowAncestorStandards Of LivingHigher Standards Author:Ludwig von Mises
“My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to enslave ourselves to machines - because some people benefit enormously from it, while the costs are borne by other people and the planet.” PeopleEconomicPlanetsRevolutionCivilizationCostBenefitsComputerCapitalismMachinesWesternAnalysisWillingnessWestern CivilizationEconomic Systems Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.” PeopleLongIdeasTermPlanetsCapitalismProfitDrivenLong TermConsideration Author:Al Gore
“I think what we're going to ultimately recognize is that capitalism was a transitional and immature system. It got the planet to be globalized and now something else has to emerge. We have to be the ones. We can't wait around. Nobody else is going to do it for us. We have to be the ones who create that new emerging system.” ThinkingWaitingPlanetsCapitalismEmergingImmature Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.” WellsMeanProblemBigsPlanetsCapitalismSellsSellingBuyingBig ProblemsBuying And SellingSelling Things Author:Alice Walker
“Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?” PeopleHumansHas BeensStillsLevelsPlanetsCapitalismProfitEngagementGood Change Author:Muhammad Yunus
“We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.” EconomicPlanetsModelsCapitalismLifestyleSocialismDestroyingEmissionsEconomic Models Author:Hugo Chavez
“Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.” WayChoicesEnergyPathEnvironmentPlanetsLimitsCapitalismHarmonyClimateClimate ChangeProfitDestroyingCapitalistHumankindThirst Author:Evo Morales
“I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.” SaidHeardStrangePlanetsCivilizationCapitalismFinishedMarsImperialismVenezuela Author:Hugo Chavez
“To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism, the other specter Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-specter. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt. Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world.” WorldWantWalksHellPathDoubtStreetsPlanetsCapitalismDestructionSocialismSpokesHauntingParaphraseSave The PlanetCopenhagen Author:Hugo Chavez
“The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of generate markets means that disposibility and waste have become the spine of the system. To consume means, literally, to destroy or expend, and in the garbage crisis we confront the underlying truth of a society in which enormous productive capacities and market forces have harnessed human needs and desires, without regard to the long or even short-term future of life on the planet.” NeedsHumansMeanLongMightDesireForceTermModernPlanetsMaterialsProductsWasteCapitalismCapacityRegardCrisisEnormousConsumersCharacteristicsProductiveGarbageShort TermSpineRecyclingHuman Needs Book:All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture Source: All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture
“I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.” PeopleWayYearsBelieveLongImportantHelpingCareLostBitsTermForgetRolesFocusPlanetsCapitalismProfitDrivenLong TermBetter LifeShort Term Author:Richard Branson
“Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.” MayTwoWarRealEndsFactsSeemsPastSimpleTroublePlanetsCapitalismCrisisGravesTricksDespiteIdeologyDestroyingShoppingStrategicBrillianceGraspingCardinalsDelusional Author:Arundhati Roy