“Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell.”
Kyle Bass (1969) businessperson
BBC HARDTalk interview, 15 November 2011.
The Growing Bankruptcy Brigade, TIME magazine (18 October 1982) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,949605,00.html
“Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell.”
Kyle Bass (1969) businessperson
BBC HARDTalk interview, 15 November 2011.
William Booth (1829–1912) British Methodist preacher
Variant: I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be.... religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.
“Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism; it’s exploitation.”
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2021, July 2021, Remarks by President Biden At Signing of An Executive Order Promoting Competition in the American Economy
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 7, p. 177
Gregor Strasser (1892–1934) German politician, rival of Adolf Hitler inside the Nazi Psrty
As quoted in "Wars, Revolutions, Dictatorships", by Stanislav Andreski - History - (1992)
“Without the collapse of capitalism the expropriation of the capitalist class is impossible.”
Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary
Source: Reform or Revolution (1899), Ch. 9