David Marquand Quotes

Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists—they're too greedy.

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality …. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state.

Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable

Controlling capitalism has proved far more difficult than controlling anything else, because capitalism is based on the control of the many by the few—the reverse of the conventional definition of political democracy.

The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its greatest danger.

Many will see [globalization] as little more than a mask used by certain economic elites for taking away the voice of the individual citizen.

Capital is good; the capitalist is a helper if he is not also a monopolist. We can safely let any one get as rich as he can if he will not despoil others in doing so.

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

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

The “natural laws of economics” are in fact tools in the hands of the avaricious and the greedy for keeping down and oppressing the laboring classes.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.

Political freedom can be inimical to economic freedom.

Both the capitalist and state-socialist form of concentration and monopolization of economic power yield destructive forms of economic growth which contaminate and destroy the very basis of human and natural life.

The upholders of Capitalism are dreamers and visionaries who, instead of doing good with evil intentions do evil with the best intentions.

Those who claim they are the prisoners of the laws of economics, only testify that they are prisoners of the idol.

As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the nation's masters.

One morning people can wake up and realize there is nothing left to share, that before state property is privatized, all the cream has been skimmed off, and what's left will just be bones.

The strongest bulwark of the capitalistic system is the ignorance of its victims.

In a capitalist society all institutions are in danger of control by the counting room.

People are dying because we in the West are unwilling to change and to actually live by the free market rhetoric we often spout.