“I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.” PeopleIfsBelieveLeftI BelieveDealsBehindsCapitalismSafetyI Believe InCapitalistLeft BehindSafety Net Author:Thomas Friedman
“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.” IfsMayChildrenSaidShowsFallCoursesLeftForcePoorPayRichEssentialsPercentCapitalismTasksSickIncreaseBurdenCaringCanadaOur SocietyStatisticsGapsFamily LifeDisabledCollisionChild CareWorking Life Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois' need to feel that he is not bourgeois.” NeedsFeelsLeftRocksLateIntellectualCapitalismFabricBourgeois Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“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
“It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.” SeemsHappensNextLeftParticularTheoryCapitalismFulfilledPrognosis Book:Contributions to Modern Economics Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.” SeemsGovernmentLeftChangeLossProgressViolenceAuthorityCapitalismFundamentalsLegacyDividesSixtyPatriarchyWhitenessLoss Of Faith Author:Rebecca Solnit
“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.” LawLeftEffectsCapitalismOur SocietyJungle Author:Mohsin Hamid