Capitalism Quote by Richard John Neuhaus

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

— John McCarthy

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is merely democratic…

— Ayn Rand

In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The…

— Heinrich Himmler

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

— Thomas Sowell

Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history,

— Vladimir Putin

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

— James Cook

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies…

— Slavoj Žižek

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is…

— Mao Zedong

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

Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of…

— Robert Heilbroner