Capitalism Quote by Ayn Rand

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

— Ayn Rand

'Redistributing the wealth' - that phrase gets used so much that you almost get numb to it.

— Boots Riley

So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink…

— Rudolf Rocker

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

— Andrew Napolitano

The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain…

— John Adams

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at…

— Thomas Sowell

Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once…

— Calvin Coolidge

“When it comes down to it, what are being traded in a capitalist economy are property rights—the ownership rights in goods and services.”

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts…

— John Ruskin