Best Capitalism Sayings
1122 Capitalism quotes by 511 unique authors
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As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
— Joseph Goebbels
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Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
— Vladimir Lenin
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Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
— Noam Chomsky
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Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
— David Korten
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In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The rules of workplace democracy are founded in solidarity and mutual trust. They are at the core of a historic process which promises to introduce…
— Unknown Author
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The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.
— Joan Robinson
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism
— Nathan Rosenberg
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The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was…
— Fernand Braudel
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Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism
— Frank Knight
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A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
— George Washington
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Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term…
— James Madison
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Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.…
— Milton Friedman
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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.
— Len Deighton
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the…
— Johan Norberg
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With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.
— Ralph Raico
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Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.
— Gus Hall
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We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on…
— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
— Alan Greenspan
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In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.
— Nouriel Roubini
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The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
— Christopher Dawson
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