Pope Francis Quotes About Capitalism

• Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

  Pope Francis

  Economic Inequality, Justice, People

  "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.

• In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

  Pope Francis

  Way, Politics, Environment

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

• Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

  Pope Francis

  Essentials, Unions, Impossible

• Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.

  Pope Francis

  Powerful, Mean, Law

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

• The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Opportunity, Culture

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

• While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control.

  Pope Francis

  Exercise, Minorities, Growing

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

• Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

  Pope Francis

  Pain, Responsibility, Compassion

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

• How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Two, Economic Inequality

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

• Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.

  Pope Francis

  Culture, Oppression, Something New

  "Pope Francis: Capitalism is 'a new tyranny'" by Katie McDonough, www.salon.com. November 26, 2013.

• Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

  Pope Francis

  Leadership, Wisdom, Money

• We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person... and we see the results in the crisis we are experiencing! This Home is a place that teaches charity, a "school" of charity, which instructs me to go encounter every person, not for profit, but for love.

  Pope Francis

  Home, School, Giving

• Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings.

  Pope Francis

  Names, Return, Favour

• Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence.

  Pope Francis

  Violence, Exclusion, Today

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.22, BookBaby

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