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> [There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-maccallum/there-s-a-big-battle-going-on-in-the-country-in-regards-to-capitalism/)

[Martha MacCallum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-maccallum/)

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> [Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-hanke/since-the-end-of-the-1970s-free-market-capitalism-has-been-in-and/)

[Steve Hanke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-hanke/)

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> [“Capitalism and socialism are tools. Each have pros and cons. For each task, use the one that makes the most sense.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-j-kirk/capitalism-and-socialism-are-tools-each-have-pros-and-cons-for-each/)

[T.J. Kirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-j-kirk/)

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> [Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-lenin/imperialism-in-a-sense-is-the-transition-stage-from-capitalism-to/)

[Vladimir Lenin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-lenin/)

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> [The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-von-mises/the-system-that-would-stand-midway-between-capitalism-and-socialism/)

[Ludwig von Mises](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-von-mises/)

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> [If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-rogers/if-you-bail-out-every-investment-bank-that-gets-in-trouble-that-s-not/)

[Jim Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-rogers/)

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> [Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-heilbroner/less-than-seventy-five-years-after-it-officially-began-the-contest/)

[Robert Heilbroner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-heilbroner/)

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> [“People who dismiss all capitalism or all socialism are opposite ends of the same kind of stupid.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-j-kirk/people-who-dismiss-all-capitalism-or-all-socialism-are-opposite-ends/)

[T.J. Kirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-j-kirk/)

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> [In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-gorbachev/in-our-discussions-here-at-the-forum-there-was-no-trace-of-the-futile/)

[Mikhail Gorbachev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-gorbachev/)

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> [Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gus-hall/human-society-cannot-basically-stop-the-destruction-of-the/)

[Gus Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gus-hall/)

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> [Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-von-mises/interventionism-cannot-be-considered-as-an-economic-system-destined/)

[Ludwig von Mises](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-von-mises/)

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> [If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/if-you-establish-or-reestablish-local-economies-on-the-right-scale/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gus-hall/just-as-feudalism-was-an-advance-over-slavery-and-capitalism-was-the/)

[Gus Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gus-hall/)

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> [There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-read/there-are-a-few-people-but-a-diminishing-number-who-still-believe/)

[Herbert Read](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-read/)

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> [We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugo-chavez/we-must-reduce-all-the-emissions-that-are-destroying-the-planet/)

[Hugo Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugo-chavez/)

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> [In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moore/in-america-we-don-t-in-daily-discourse-use-the-words-capitalism-or/)

[Michael Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moore/)

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> [The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-v-debs/the-issue-is-socialism-versus-capitalism-i-am-for-socialism-because-i/)

[Eugene V. Debs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-v-debs/)

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> [You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We're not gonna fight capitalism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-hampton/you-don-t-fight-fire-with-fire-you-fight-fire-with-water-we-re-gonna/)

[Fred Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-hampton/)

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> [Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/our-problem-today-is-not-how-to-expropriate-the-expropriators-but/)

[Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/)

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> [A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-von-mises/a-society-that-chooses-between-capitalism-and-socialism-does-not/)

[Ludwig von Mises](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-von-mises/)

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> [Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugo-chavez/everyday-i-become-more-convinced-there-is-no-doubt-in-my-mind-and-as/)

[Hugo Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugo-chavez/)

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> [Think of the problem of the world as a cart. It has to have two wheels. If you have one wheel, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-creme/think-of-the-problem-of-the-world-as-a-cart-it-has-to-have-two-wheels/)

[Benjamin Creme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-creme/)

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> [Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market … What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacque-fresco/capitalism-socialism-fascism-communism-the-free-market-what-good-are/)

[Jacque Fresco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacque-fresco/)

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> [From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-p-ellerman/from-the-viewpoint-of-economic-democracy-the-capitalism-socialism/)

[David P. Ellerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-p-ellerman/)

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> [There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-perlstein/there-is-no-freedom-without-groceries-there-are-no-groceries-without/)

[Rick Perlstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-perlstein/)

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> [There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-von-mises/there-is-simply-no-other-choice-than-this-either-to-abstain-from/)

[Ludwig von Mises](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-von-mises/)

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> [I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moore/i-m-tired-of-this-discussion-of-capitalism-and-socialism-we-live-in/)

[Michael Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moore/)

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> [The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-blair/the-21st-century-will-not-be-about-the-battle-between-capitalism-and/)

[Tony Blair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-blair/)

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> [What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/what-we-do-today-has-nothing-to-do-with-capitalism-or-socialism-it-is/)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nassim-nicholas-taleb/)

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> [The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-john-neuhaus/the-vicissitudes-of-history-however-have-not-dissuaded-them-from/)

[Richard John Neuhaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-john-neuhaus/)

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> [Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/riane-eisler/neither-capitalism-nor-socialism-is-capable-of-meeting-our/)

[Riane Eisler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/riane-eisler/)

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> [In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinrich-himmler/in-the-course-of-history-periods-of-capitalism-and-socialism/)

[Heinrich Himmler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinrich-himmler/)

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> [I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fidel-castro/i-don-t-think-that-the-contradictions-between-capitalism-and/)

[Fidel Castro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fidel-castro/)

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> [Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moore/here-s-what-i-don-t-think-works-an-economic-system-that-was-founded/)

[Michael Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moore/)

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> [Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-von-mises/capitalism-and-socialism-are-two-distinct-patterns-of-social/)

[Ludwig von Mises](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-von-mises/)

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## Top authors on Capitalism Socialism

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                        "text": "There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.",
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                        "text": "Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.",
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                        "text": "In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment.",
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