Capitalism Quote by Ludwig von Mises

The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his…

— Ludwig von Mises

The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated.…

— Henry Hazlitt

Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation…

— Ludwig von Mises

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

— Ludwig von Mises

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

— Ludwig von Mises

The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization,…

— Ludwig von Mises

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

— Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common…

— Thomas Piketty

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

— Thomas Piketty

“John Kenneth Galbraith, in The Economics of Innocent Fraud, provided a still stronger condemnation of prevailing economic and social science, arguing that in recent…

— Anonymous

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

“When significant numbers of people see their standards of living fall despite an ever-growing economic pie, it threatens the social contract of the economy…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

— David Korten

The country needs fiscal discipline to build a strong economy and for social justice.

— Smriti Irani

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

— Donald L. Carcieri