Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like,… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies. — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
“despite the efforts of some to use the word ‘Socialism’ as some kind of rallying cry, it’s important for every reasonable person… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so… — Gary North Copy Share Image
“A man who devotes his time and efforts, under his own direction, at his own pleasure, from his own property, in order… — Seth Daniel Parker Copy Share Image
The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Our essential difficulty is that we are seeking in a mechanism, which is necessary, qualities it simply does not possess. The market… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“According to Friedman, if individuals are voluntarily entering into exchanges from which both parties expect to benefit, then the market is free.… — William T. Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You cannot have good capitalism without freedom. Each is strengthened by the other. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating. — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image