Quotes About Economic systems

And countries that combine free markets with more taxation, social spending, and regulation than the United States (such as Canada, New Zealand, and Western Europe) turn out to be not grim dystopias but rather pleasant places to live, and they trounce the United States in every measure of human flourishing, including crime, life expectancy, infant mortality, education, and happiness.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.

When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Capitalism is using its money we socialists throw it away.

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

it is not socialism that subverts democracy, but democracy that subverts capitalism.

When we think of capitalism, we think of wage workers, yet this prior phase of capitalism was based not on free labor but on slavery.

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

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Attribute the declining life expectancy in the former Soviet Union to the failures of communism many years ago, but never attribute the high infant mortality rate in the United States (now highest of the major industrial nations) to the failures of capitalism.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

A virulent form of utopianism has indeed afflicted the Modern Age, but its name is not Marxism. It is the crazy notion that a single global system known as the free-market can impose itself on the most diverse cultures and economies and cure all their ills.

Capitalism must be kept alive by non-capitalist methods.

Older people still see socialism and communism as dangerous, authoritarian political systems, whereas younger people are more likely to see them as economic systems, and to care far less one way or another.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

Socialism doesn't work. A big government doesn't work.

You don't want communism. You don't want this socialism. This is what destroys countries and lives.