Capitalism Quotes · Page 16

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.

— Linda McQuaig

The genuine dictator makes people cry not only by his life, but also by his death.

— Ilkin Santak

Socialism is antithetical to freedom, because when it breeds and thrives, people die.

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

— Nathan Rosenberg

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

— Jair Bolsonaro

Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.

— Steve Hanke

Religion is the heart of a heartless system (capitalism).

— Karl Marx

The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from…

— Jamelle Bouie

Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the…

— Johan Norberg

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form… There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

— Jean-Luc Godard

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer…

— Mortimer Zuckerman

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

— Robert Gilpin

The capitalist priority is efficiency of capital and profitability, which is generally inconsistent with protecting the vulnerabilities of people and nature.

— Richard A. Falk

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

— Henry David Thoreau

Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will,…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour,…

— Vladimir Lenin

“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others…

— Earl Warren

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one…

— Joe Slovo

When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which…

— Ludwig von Mises

The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to…

— Ludwig von Mises

All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources,…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol,…

— Camille Paglia

“The rich and powerful are going to survive longer, but the effects are very real―and they're getting worse very quickly as more…

— Noam Chomsky

“In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for a great…

— Victor Pelevin

I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“So, when free-market economists say that a certain regulation should not be introduced because it would restrict the ‘freedom’ of a certain…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you…

— Bob Torres

“The political perspective of this book, ironically, is the progeny of the progressive potential of capitalism as an historical system. The joint…

— Samuel Bowles

What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled…

— Rodney Clapp

This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”

— Alfred Bester

It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can

— Stafford Cripps

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

— Thomas Friedman

Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.

— Cameron Russell

“When the government does the job of a parent, that's socialism.”

— Marybeth Hicks

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

— Stefan Heym