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Capitalism Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
- 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…
- ..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because…
- Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning…
- Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of…
- What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own…
- And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already…
- The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented…
- Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of…
- Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the…
More Capitalism Quotes
- WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. — Julian Assange
- Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou
- Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips… — Simon Baker
- Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. — Honore de Balzac
- You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is… — Bernard Baruch
- Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the… — John Berger
- Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. — Frank Borman
- I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American… — Warren Buffett
- I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism. — Jeb Bush
- Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. — Orson Scott Card
- Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. — Fidel Castro