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

Wars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

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.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

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

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

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.

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

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

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

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

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.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

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.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

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.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

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.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

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

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

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism’s creative destruction of slower industries.

I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

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.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

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

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

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

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.