Capitalism Quotes - Page 14

• 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 greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.

  Grover Furr

  Running, Russia, Class

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• If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Giving, Doe, Faces

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• The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

  Vinod Khosla

  Dirty, Hands, Firsts

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• Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere.

  David Foreman

  Cancer, Biosphere

  "Defending the Earth: Debate Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman". Book by Murray Bookchin, Dave Foreman, 1991.

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• ... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

  Fidel Castro

  Doe, Socialism, Imperialism

  Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.206, Ocean Press

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• In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a free market...Every single coercive monopoly that exists or ever has existed...was created and made possible only by an act of government...which granted special privileges (not obtainable in a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Men, Competition

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• What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic socialism is inferior to the dream of democratic capitalism, and that the latter's superiority in actual practice is undeniable.

  Michael Novak

  Dream, Thinking, Practice

  Michael Novak (1991). “The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism”, p.26, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Political, Pay

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• East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

  Peter L. Berger

  People, East, Asia

  Peter L. Berger (1988). “The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty”

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• Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind.

  Peter L. Berger

  Fate, Today, Economic

  Peter L. Berger (1988). “The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty”

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• I think that for the developing world there are many versions of capitalism, and countries have to choose one that's appropriate.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Thinking, World

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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• Unfettered market American-style capitalism doesn't work. Developing countries can't afford that kind of luxury. They just can't afford it. Period. If there's a mistake, they can't afford to put out $2 trillion.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Mistake, Luxury

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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• The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Party, Believe, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

  Bill Ayers

  World, Logic, Dies

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

  Bill Ayers

  Years, Handwriting, Exhausted

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Uncommon, Free Market, Property

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.39, Palgrave Macmillan

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• If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

  Kenneth Minogue

  Planning, Fantasy, Argument

  "Giants Refreshed II: The Escape from Serfdom: Friedrich von Hayek and the Restoration of Liberty" in Times Literary Supplement ( p. 11), January 14, 2000.

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• F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

  Peter L. Berger

  Hayek, Periods, Prominent

  Peter L. Berger (1988). “The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty”

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• .. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

  Irving Kristol

  Intelligent, Hayek, Modern

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• Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

  Al Capone

  Opportunity, Hands, Giving

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• Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Democracy, Individualism, Communism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.216, Beacon Press

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• I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.

  Bill Ayers

  Morning, Thinking, Night

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• In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.

  John McCain

  Russia, Democracy, Force

  "Lawmakers: Bush must lean on Putin". www.cnn.com. February 20, 2005.

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• The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.

  Ben Shapiro

  Jobs, Simple, Cities

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