Capitalism Quotes

1122 Capitalism quotes by 511 unique authors

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.
...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism. — Emma Goldman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. — Allan H. Meltzer
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. — Ludwig von Mises
Knowledge is power. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not hiding it. — Peter Drucker
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
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.
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. — Judi Bari
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
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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