Paul Hawken Quotes

Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

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

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.

I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback of freedom.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

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

Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.

Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much money, but the only way we've figured out how to generate wealth in this world is through the market economy.

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

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist takeover of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this

Modern capitalism is masterful at producing services people don't need and in large part probably don't want. It is brilliant at convincing people that they do need and want them. But it has difficulty turning itself to the production of those services which people really do need. Not only that, it often spends an enormous amount of time and effort convincing people that those services are either unrealistic, marginal or counterproductive.

The land of the capitalists…

Capitalism is economic Darwinism…free enterprise is code for individualistic amorality…the marketplace is the temple of secular humanism.

Capitalism will kill competition.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process.

Although capitalism is, in principle, strongly individualistic, it has contributed in practice to reinforce the trend to integration, because it has made our lives more and more interdependent.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.