Economic system Quote by Thomas Hilmersen

I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are.…

— Truman Capote

“The idealized capitalist system first and foremost emphasizes “freedom from” external restrictions on one’s ability to rise in society’s ranks. At least in theory,…

— Sheena Iyengar

The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were…

— Milton Friedman

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

— Eric Hoffer

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

— Frank Zappa

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than…

— Anonymous

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

— Thomas Woods

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

— Helen Mirren

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the…

— Iris Chang

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

— Evan Esar

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in…

— Bernard Baruch

Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it.

— Gilles Dauve