My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy. — David Korten Copy Share Image
“When you nationalize the expenditures but privatize the revenue, everything is profit.” — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
“Socialism provides safety in numbers. And that’s OK, if you don’t mind trading your name—your identity and individualism—for a number.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers &… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course.… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion… — Helder Camara Copy Share Image
“A great deal of the talk about laissez faire [in the nineteenth century] must be discounted, or at least put into its… — Vito Tanzi Copy Share Image
“the elite use socialism as a consolidation and control mechanism. Allen describes Socialism as "a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking… — Mark M. Rich Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of co-ordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion—the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Women are often convinced by many different social norms, expectations, and incentives to live within constraints that similarly placed (in terms of… — Cudd/Holmstrom Copy Share Image
Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits. — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof. — Roky Erickson Copy Share Image
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