And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people realize the majesty of the laws of nature, then they will see how far they have fallen away from the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile --… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Free enterprise democracy has proven the best system by far for maximizing freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Dictatorship, Soviet style communism, and hereditary… — James Stone Copy Share Image
I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Except for spending to protect property rights, enforce the law, and protect citizens from foreign aggressors, all government spending crowds out private… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
A few months ago people were talking about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Now the only hope is… — Jeffrey Garten Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most… — Doug Henwood Copy Share Image
We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class,… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
“In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking down… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberalism as espoused by, for instance, Charles Comte and Charles… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think that so-called capitalism and trade is a very important element in giving people opportunity. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world… — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism's creative destruction of slower industries. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
As long as we have have predatory capitalism, we'll have guns because the gun industry loves to make money out of guns. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view. — Mario Gabelli Copy Share Image
I want the United States to be having a much larger and more public conversation about racist capitalism. We need a radical… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image