Capitalism Quotes

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

Capitalism is in crisis.