I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

The real minimum wage is zero.