“When it comes down to it, what are being traded in a capitalist economy are property rights—the ownership rights in goods and… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“The negro workers are still unaware of the force that can give them union organization; happy industrialists.” — King Albert I of Belgium Copy Share Image
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack)” — Jamie Delano Copy Share Image
I want the largest audience I can get, because that's how I can charge the highest advertising rate. Which means what else… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the… — Andi Zeisler Copy Share Image
Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued… — S. E. Cupp Copy Share Image
“Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into,… — Anonymous 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
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
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Christ, back in Chicago, we don’t make bicycles any more. It’s all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is the masculine dynamic that has caused our society to place money and corporate profit above human beings. It has allowed… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
“Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what… — Eleanor Arnason 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
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system. — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It's ironic that socialism and similar left-wing ideas appeal to people who fashion themselves as 'anti-establishment,' when you can't have socialism without… — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There is no need to subject people in capitalism to additional suffering; the point is to get them to recognize that the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image