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Capitalism Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- 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…
- It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it…
- In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the…
- Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the…
- Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could…
- No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control…
- Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,…
- No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services,…
- Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done;…
- World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for…
- In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.
- Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they…
- Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
- The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all…
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