American Capitalism Quotes

• Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Fun, Business, Men

  Attributed by Michael Albert, "Moving Forward: Programme for a Participatory Economy", (p. 128), 2000.

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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

  Bertrand Russell

  Exercise, Liberty, Principles

  Bertrand Russell (1960). “Sceptical Essays”

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• There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Reality, Eugenics

  "SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future". Interview with Beatriz Pages Rebollar, lanic.utexas.edu. June 4, 1991.

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• The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

  James Surowiecki

  Challenges, Environment, Fraud

  "The crowd is smarter than you think". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 14, 2004.

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• This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

  Al Capone

  Opportunity, Hands, History

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• Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Cities, Chicago, Modern

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, Democracy, Literature

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jul 27, 2012

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• The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

  Peter Brimelow

  Eugenics, Problem, Socialism

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• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  Fidel Castro

  Cold War, Capitalism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Orson Scott Card

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Homebody: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.

  Smedley Butler

  Boys, Cities, Oil

  Smedley Darlington Butler (2016). “War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.

  Steve Stivers

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive Interview with Steve Stivers, Challenger of OH-15". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 9, 2010.

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• The promise of American capitalism is that it makes people richer, freer and more independent. But since the introduction of Fed, the currency in which Americans keep score has so addled the figures, we scarcely know if we are winning or losing. The dollar we knew as a child - in the 1950's - is only worth a tenth as much today.

  Bill Bonner

  Children, Independent, Winning

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• American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Reflection, Cinema, Film

  Sergei Eisenstein (1964). “Film form: essays in film theory, and The film sense”

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• American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

  Max Lerner

  Knights, Robber Baron, Has Beens

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• ... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

  Warren Buffett

  Important, Fiscal Policy, Investing

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• We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did guarantee opportunity, for too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

  Mario Cuomo

  Success, Dream, Hard Work

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• It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

  Jim Moran

  Men, Central Park, Kites

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• 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.

  Christopher Lasch

  Law, Support, Wages

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• Is it logical to ask how far away are we from the pope explaining that abortion can be justified, "in certain circumstances, in certain regions," and if it might be related to the evils of American capitalism and our immigration policy?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Evil, Abortion, Immigration

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. But it was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual.

  Edward Said

  Military, Heart, World

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

  William Pfaff

  Political, Intellectual, Spheres

  "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 31, 1989.

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• American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.

  Kent Hovind

  Answers, World, Finance

  "Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution". Book by Kent Hovind, 1996.

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• Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

  James Surowiecki

  Running, Real, Self

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