Advantage Quote by H. L. Mencken

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

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

Capitalism is supposedly free enterprise. Supposedly about the free individual. But capitalism itself is so massive that the guy on the street gets caught…

— Frank Capra

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided…

— Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about…

— David Korten

While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the…

— Chris Matthews

The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a…

— Joseph Stalin

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

— Nora Ephron

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

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

If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not…

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

You cannot have good capitalism without freedom. Each is strengthened by the other.

— Raphael Warnock