I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
If capitalism is to remain a healthy vibrant economic system corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
The worker is the slave of capitalist society the female worker is the slave of that slave.
The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
In a capitalist society persons who create capital like Michael Eisner are given the staggering rewards.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That for me would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor and that therefore in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science we must educate our masters labour and capital in art.
What business has science and capitalism got bringing all these new inventions into the works before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery a metaphor for a proof a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths and oneself for an oracle is inborn in us.
Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit indeed they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core they want more empathic enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.