The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands.

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to an expensive school?

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”(Analects 4.16)

If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.