The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“New Dealers always seemed to be comparing actual capitalism with ideal government. They judged capitalism by its apparent effects and government by… — Jim Powell Copy Share Image
Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My perspective of capitalism growing up in Berkeley, Calif. in a low-income project, growing up poor, is that capitalism wanted to destroy… — Lil B Copy Share Image
“. . . then life began, and since then we remember each dumpster, abandoned house, and foot-chase by retail security. At night,… — Nigel Davis Copy Share Image
What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
By the way, if socialism is so damn hot, why doesn't the pope ask all Mexicans to return home? If capitalism is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“Marxist writers are generally either indifferent or mildly hostile to the anti-capitalist movement, which they see as no good substitute for the… — Jeremy Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Capitalism allocates resources, generates innovation, rewards effort, and builds affluence with high efficiency, and these are extraordinarily important things to do well… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If you're going to point out the ridiculousness of a rule, it's naïve to think that you can break it. It's the… — Chilly Gonzales Copy Share Image
We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also… — George Soros Copy Share Image
In 2003, Helmut Schmidt said: Predatory capitalism exists, we have to civilize it and we can do that via Europe. He was… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and… — Andrew Joseph Galambos Copy Share Image
The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Or, if you want the positive but somewhat callous view, you might wish to describe Christianity as the gateway drug to supply-side… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
There's a real, brutal nature to the capitalism practiced by the main character in 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.'… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image