Capitalism Quote by Murray Rothbard

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could…

— Neil Postman

“Technocracy gave us the idea of progress, and of necessity loosened our bonds with tradition—whether political or spiritual. Technocracy filled the air with the…

— Neil Postman

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

— Johan Norberg

The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

— Stephen Gardiner

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

— Chellis Glendinning

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the…

— William Ellery Channing

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer…

— John A. Hobson

“The revolutionary tradition with its concepts of democracy, the pursuit of liberty, and equality moved quickly from the economically developed and politically complex ancien…

— Pankaj Mishra

Liberty is so great a magician, endowed with so marvelous a power of productivity, that under the inspiration of this spirit alone, North America…

— Mikhail Bakunin