The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded… — John Ruskin 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
The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more evident than that modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Accurate presentation of thoughts through the correct expressions of words - is an art accumulated for years. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth century Capitalism? It needs men… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. The inherent vice of capitalism… — Sir Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
We spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our loved ones, and yet we don't have that many novels… — Teddy Wayne 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
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are… — Arlie Russell Hochschild 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