What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool… — Peter Boettke Copy Share Image
Ultimately, and I believe this is one of the fundamental problems with socialism, it's that human beings do have self-interest. It's very… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed… — George Nethercutt Copy Share Image
Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (“exploitation”) are not the “unprincipled violations of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
We know that global capitalism, and the commercially driven culture that comes with it, can be a powerful solvent, but many of… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system ... not that the… — M. Northrup Buechner Copy Share Image
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you.… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution created a huge urban proletariat, and socialism spread because no other creed managed to answer… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Cuba was fantastic, at least just in terms of... Not to romanticize or glorify it, but just seeing a place that had… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
“Neoliberalism represents a highly efficient, indeed an intelligent, system for exploiting freedom. Everything that belongs to practices and expressive forms of liberty… — Byung-Chul Han Copy Share Image
The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people’s greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically ,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Addiction is when natural biological imperatives, like the need for food, sex, relaxation or status, become prioritised to the point of destructiveness.… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
All socialists have bad backs because we slouch — except when we're watching the news when we sit on the edge of… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The various manifestations of socialism destroyed both their peoples and their ecosystems, whereas the powers of the North and the West have… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
