Capitalism Quote by Ben Fountain

The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from a 'socialist'…

— Jamelle Bouie

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

— Michael Parenti

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and…

— H. L. Mencken

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

— Ben Shapiro

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

— Garet Garrett

Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after…

— Norman Cousins

The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Roosevelt's New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not simply to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade…

— Steven Pinker

Whether we're talking about the New Deal or the Great Society: they didn't come about because they wanted to buy people off with "hush…

— Henry Giroux

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.

— Zygmunt Bauman

The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.

— Caroline Lucas