The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality” — Bakunin Copy Share Image
The economic system that represents our civilisation will one day end, too. We'll be inside a museum - the great museum of… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is… — George Will Copy Share Image
I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
“To Jurgis the packers had been the equivalent to fate; Ostrinski showed him that they were the Beef Trust. They were a… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles,… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every previous form of society was… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
“The nascent capitalism of modernity is a sacrificial economy that worships money as fetish and sacrifices the “subjective corporeality of the Indian… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited all.” — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
To be an American is to be indoctrinated with racism, violence, capitalism and manifest destiny, the principles upon which the land of… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Too often we put the gospel of Jesus through the strainer of consumerist-capitalism and retain only the thin broth that this modern-day… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind…he trades with the same… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.” — David L. Weimer Copy Share Image
I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The market economy of its own cannot destroy socialism. But to build socialism with success, it is necessary to develop a market… — Nguyen Phu Trong Copy Share Image
The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image