--- title: "6 Capitalist Institutions Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 6 Capitalist Institutions quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Capitalist Institutions sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4e/niall-ferguson-3627_capitalist_the-twentieth-century-ran-a-series-of-ex_177541.jpg" --- > [“the twentieth century ran a series of experiments, imposing quite different institutions on two sets of Germans (in West and East), two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niall-ferguson/the-twentieth-century-ran-a-series-of-experiments-imposing-quite/) [Niall Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niall-ferguson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4e/niall-ferguson-3627_capitalist_the-twentieth-century-ran-a-series-of-ex_177541.jpg) > [“Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-friedman/because-we-live-in-a-largely-free-society-we-tend-to-forget-how/) [Milton Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-friedman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/334/milton-friedman-616_free-market_because-we-live-in-a-largely-free-societ_250656.jpg) > [“And when the ocean starts rising to the level of whatever building they're in and whatever floor they're on as they write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/and-when-the-ocean-starts-rising-to-the-level-of-whatever-building/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0a/noam-chomsky-42_capitalism_and-when-the-ocean-starts-rising-to-the_801742.jpg) > [“In the Brazilian rural workers movement, they speak of “widening the floors of the cage”—the cage of existing coercive institutions that can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-the-brazilian-rural-workers-movement-they-speak-of-widening-the/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/noam-chomsky-42_quote_in-the-brazilian-rural-workers-movement_1641931.jpg) > [“Stalin formulated the economic aims of socialism as: “The securing of the maximum satisfaction of the constantly rising material and cultural requirements…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-robinson/stalin-formulated-the-economic-aims-of-socialism-as-the-securing-of/) [Joan Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-robinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3e/joan-robinson-11438_economics_stalin-formulated-the-economic-aims-of-s_2661478.png) > [The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-l-r-james/the-home-stands-in-contrast-to-all-other-capitalist-institutions-as/) [C. L. R. James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-l-r-james/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c46/c-l-r-james-17182_capitalist_the-home-stands-in-contrast-to-all-other_2842849.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capitalist-institutions/#itemlist", "name": "Capitalist Institutions Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“the twentieth century ran a series of experiments, imposing quite different institutions on two sets of Germans (in West and East), two sets of Koreans (in North and South) and two sets of Chinese (inside and outside the People’s Republic). The results were very striking and the lesson crystal clear. If you take the same people, with more or less the same culture, and impose communist institutions on one group and capitalist institutions on another, almost immediately there will be a divergence in the way they behave. Many”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Niall Ferguson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niall-ferguson/the-twentieth-century-ran-a-series-of-experiments-imposing-quite/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4e/niall-ferguson-3627_capitalist_the-twentieth-century-ran-a-series-of-ex_177541.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4e/niall-ferguson-3627_capitalist_the-twentieth-century-ran-a-series-of-ex_177541.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4e/niall-ferguson-3627_capitalist_the-twentieth-century-ran-a-series-of-ex_177541.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“the twentieth century ran a series of experiments, imposing quite different institutions on two sets of…” — Niall Ferguson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the Western world stand out as striking exceptions to the general trend of historical development. Political freedom in this instance clearly came along with the free market and the development of capitalist institutions. 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Sure, no matter how lunatic people are, at some point or other they're going to realize that these problems exist, and they are approaching fast. It's just that the next thing they'll ask is, \"So how can we make some money off it?\" In fact, anybody in business who didn't ask that question would find themselves out of business—just because that's the way that capitalist institutions work. I mean, if some executive came along and said,\" I'm not going to look at it that way, I'm going to do things differently,\" well, they'd get replaced by someone who would try to make more money off it―because these are simply institutional facts, these are facts about the structure of the institutions. And if you don't like them, and I don't, then you're going to have to change the institutions. There really is no other way.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noam Chomsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/and-when-the-ocean-starts-rising-to-the-level-of-whatever-building/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0a/noam-chomsky-42_capitalism_and-when-the-ocean-starts-rising-to-the_801742.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0a/noam-chomsky-42_capitalism_and-when-the-ocean-starts-rising-to-the_801742.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0a/noam-chomsky-42_capitalism_and-when-the-ocean-starts-rising-to-the_801742.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And when the ocean starts rising to the level of whatever building they're in and whatever floor they're on…” — Noam Chomsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In the Brazilian rural workers movement, they speak of “widening the floors of the cage”—the cage of existing coercive institutions that can be widened by popular struggle—as has happened effectively over many years. We can extend the image to think of the cage of state institutions as a protection from the savage beasts roaming outside: the predatory, state-supported capitalist institutions dedicated in principle to private gain, power and domination, with community and people’s interest at most a footnote, revered in rhetoric but dismissed in practice as a matter of principle and even law. Much”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noam Chomsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/in-the-brazilian-rural-workers-movement-they-speak-of-widening-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/noam-chomsky-42_quote_in-the-brazilian-rural-workers-movement_1641931.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/noam-chomsky-42_quote_in-the-brazilian-rural-workers-movement_1641931.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/noam-chomsky-42_quote_in-the-brazilian-rural-workers-movement_1641931.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the Brazilian rural workers movement, they speak of “widening the floors of the cage”—the cage of…” — Noam Chomsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Stalin formulated the economic aims of socialism as: “The securing of the maximum satisfaction of the constantly rising material and cultural requirements of the whole society.” [Economic Problems of Socialism in U.S.S.R., English edition, p. 45.] Taken positively, this has no more content than any metaphysical slogan; like the slogan “All men are equal,” it expresses its point of view through negations. “Constantly rising” requirements means that there is no foreseeable limit to the possible rise in productivity (for, of course, it is not so much the needs as the means to satisfy them that will continually increase). “Cultural” requirements means that growing wealth is not to be confined to physical goods (though these alone enter into the Marxist definition of output). “The whole society” implies a condemnation of the arbitrary distribution of wealth. There is nothing in this that the orthodox economists can object to. Indeed, it takes the very words out of their mouth. But they were wont to excuse the inequality generated by private property in the means of production because it was necessary to make total income greater. If income grows faster without it, they are in an awkward situation. Perhaps this is why they have crept off to hide in thickets of algebra and left the torch of ideology to be carried by the political argument that capitalist institutions are the bulwark of liberty. 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