Capitalism Quote by Chris Matthews

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and…

— Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control…

— Ludwig von Mises

The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

— Cynthia Kauffman

Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same…

— Kshama Sawant

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

— Ludwig von Mises

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

— George Bernard Shaw

Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.

— Iain McGilchrist

From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system),…

— David P. Ellerman