Capitalism Quotes

All socialism involves slavery.

— Herbert Spencer

Capitalism is a pretty brutal place.

— Charlie Munger

I don't think capitalism can survive.

— Douglas Tompkins

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

— Lorne Michaels

I am too serious to be a patriot.

— Ilkin Santak

No ideology could resist capital until now.

— Ilkin Santak

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

— Upton Sinclair

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

— Walter E. Williams

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

— Bill Ayers

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

— Robert Heilbroner

The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.

— Herbert Hoover

Evolution of consciousness consists of the gap between generations.

— Ilkin Santak

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

— Ayn Rand

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

— John Naisbitt

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.

— Henry Giroux

“Caesar of the 21st century : I came! I saw! I bought!”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like…

— Kate Zambreno

A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.

— Naomi Klein

The old generations have thrown themselves into the abyss between the generations... to be resurrected among the young generations!

— Ilkin Santak

The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate…

— Anonymous

Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided,…

— Anonymous

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

— George Orwell

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how…

— Bill Shankly

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

— Fidel Castro

The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into…

— Joseph Stalin

Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always…

— Vladimir Lenin

The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice…

— Henry Hazlitt

Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable…

— Star Parker

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more…

— Paul Lafargue

The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but…

— Anonymous

When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free…

— Ben Shapiro

Ever since Marx, leftists have known that the simplest way to controlling a country is via education, the news industry, and health…

— Rush Limbaugh

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce…

— Milton Friedman

“All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for…

— Michael Hureaux-Perez

“The new fashions sold in department stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They’d been displaced by immigrant…

— Mary Doria Russell

“Chaebol-style capitalism was, and to some extent still is, very different from the dictionary definition of capitalism. Not only was industry directed…

— Daniel Tudor

“There has been much talk about the alleged exploitation of the debtor nations by the creditor nations. But if the concept of…

— Ludwig von Mises

“...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76 now look…

— Thomas Jefferson

The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand…

— Leon Trotsky