Capitalism Quotes - Page 3

• Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

  Barney Frank

  Power, Perspective, Decision

  "The Sayings of Chairman Barney" by Richard Reeves, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Race, Ethnicity, Color

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• There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Country, Two, Style

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• Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

  Tavis Smiley

  Children, Growing Up, Looks

  FaceBook post by Tavis Smiley from Jul 20, 2010

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• Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

  Frank Borman

  Money, Good Christian, Hell

  Quoted in Forbes, 8 June 1981

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• If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, America, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 39: 13 November 1802 to 3 March 1803”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Civilization, Invention, Century

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  Garet Garrett

  Fundamentals, Enmity, Enterprise

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

  Alain Badiou

  Humanity, Nihilism, Savages

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• The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Development, Consumers

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• History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

  Milton Friedman

  History, Political, Conditions

  Capitalism and Freedom ch. 1 (1962)

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• The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

  Edward Heath

  Faces

  'Hansard' 15 May 1973, col. 1243 (on the Lonrho affair)

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• The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

  Thomas Friedman

  Historical, Answers, Debate

  Thomas L. Friedman (2000). “The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

  Stewart Udall

  Holy Grail, Gross, Products

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• Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

  Oswald Spengler

  Eugenics, Class, Socialism

  Jahre der Entscheidung (The Hour of Decision, 1933) pt. 1

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• Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Business, Doing Good, Results

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• The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

  Albert Camus

  Eulogy, Enemy, Made

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

  C. L. R. James

  People, Together, Social

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• For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Peace, Business, War

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• A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Two, Doe

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Achievement, Needs, Speak

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Kluwer Academic Pub

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• I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Awards, Brave

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• This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Educational, Evil

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control.

  Pope Francis

  Exercise, Minorities, Growing

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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

  Chris Patten

  Mean, Thinking, Should

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