Capitalism Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

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.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

Capitalism works.

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.