Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“I wish I understood why you buy all this stuff." "For the same reason I married you," she murmured. "To help pass… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Even socialists steer away from any criticism of the real corporate predation, which is the predation on future generations in which we… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism. It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has come, not only to serve Britain's purpose by keeping the people divided, but, by setting worker against worker, it has… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of… — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green'… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative.… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“This concern for those left behind by the rise of what Pope Francis calls a “savage capitalism” is perhaps the defining mission… — Simone Campbell Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“European culture, along with fake Christianity and capitalism, has transformed Western women into mere sex objects and showpieces of sexualized features. However,… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The big guys who ran things didn't want you thinking or feeling. It slowed down production. They wanted you scared and working… — Bill Ripley Copy Share Image
“Lately it's started to seem to me that here in America our fetishization of self-reliance has taken a wrong turn and has… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads. — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Everyone, deep in their hears, is waiting for the end of the world to come.” — Murakami Haruki Copy Share Image
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy. — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
“America needs a pure democracy; absolutely free of both communism and capitalism” — Leland Lewis Copy Share Image
“The problem with capitalism is capitalists eventually run out of your money.” — John Gabriel Copy Share Image
“When I say ‘capitalism,’ I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism” — Alex Ayres Copy Share Image
