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.

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.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The white man is destroying the world.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.

No one is pro-abortion.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

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

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Sexism is real in this country.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

All movements go too far.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we’ve got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

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