Alice Walker Quotes

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

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 is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

In America, we debate everything except capitalism. If there's an institution in your society that's above criticism, you're giving it a free pass to indulge all of its weaknesses and darker tendencies.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it.

In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Capitalism is very unfair but it is the only system that works.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

Capitalism with airbags—the type of capitalism I am a fan of.

There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

I believe in capitalism as long as there's a strong rule of law around it.

I don't think capitalism can survive.

The economy is designed to serve the individual.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

Only capitalists get photographers.

Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but is the current form of capitalism the best way of it working?

This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.