Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. — Susan George Copy Share Image
Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you stick to the old values and say that you were educated in this way, so you were trained in this… — Ilkin Santak 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
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political,… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
I think that for the developing world there are many versions of capitalism, and countries have to choose one that's appropriate. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Let's take Adam Smith, the patron-saint of capitalism, what did he think? He thought the main human instinct was sympathy. In fact,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“We who live in capitalist countries tend to take all of this—property rights, free-market pricing, entrepreneurship—for granted, but every socialist country that… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
I'm surprised people are that hopeful about what government can do, because if you believe in socialism, society can run a pretty… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“No society has succeeded in abolishing the distinction between ruler and ruled... to be a ruler gives one special status and, usually,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In theory, capitalism is an economic system that allows people to freely trade goods and services in a competitive free market. But… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
People know that pain is part of our nature, that it cannot be avoided and that it should not be avoided. But… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
While it might surprise many ecologists to hear, capitalism is itself the ultimate form of conservationism. Capitalists seek to conserve resources, not… — Steven Plaut Copy Share Image
Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands. — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary. — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
