Capitalism Quotes
1122 Capitalism quotes by 511 unique authors
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We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
— Emma Goldman
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The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable…
— Ayn Rand
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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the…
— Ayn Rand
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Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through…
— Murray Rothbard
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Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to…
— Thomas Sowell
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I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
— Sidney Hook
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It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces…
— Albert Einstein
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Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
— Allan H. Meltzer
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What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it.
— Peter Drucker
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The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and…
— Michael Parenti
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Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from…
— Vladimir Lenin
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In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social…
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment…
— Henry Hazlitt
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...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by…
— J Stalin
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There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way
— Robert Solow
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This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize…
— Al Capone
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The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men…
— Davis McCaughey
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If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.
— Judi Bari
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Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice:…
— Evo Morales
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But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in…
— Peter L. Berger
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