There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All that socialism means to me, to be very frank with you, is democracy with a small 'd.' I believe in democracy,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Free market ideology - does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home,… — John Médaille Copy Share Image
For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
“But for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress. And now, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“It [predatory capitalism] is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the… — Francois Quesnay Copy Share Image
The distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual consists in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectuals theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectuals… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“It’s all part of the life-cycle of an economy. First it’s lawless capitalism until that starts to impede growth. Next comes regulation,… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image