Quotes About Economic systems

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

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Look, everything the Communists say about capitalism is true, and everything the capitalists say about Communism is true. The difference is, our system works because it's based on the truth about people's selfishness, and theirs doesn't because it's based on a fairy tale about people's brotherhood. It's such a crazy fairy tale they've got to take people and put them in Siberia in order to get them to believe it.

I]t was not just capitalism that created fantasies through these Ideological State Apparatus and enforced them through Repressive State Apparatuses--so did communism.

Capitalism, it is said, is a system wherein man exploits man. And communism—is vice versa.

There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.

Socialism has been discredited. Plutocracy is in the process of being discredited. Democratic capitalism has yet to be tried.

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning [socialism] is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. 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.

out of the pecuniary and political pressures and fashions of the time, economics and larger economic and political systems cultivate their own version of the truth. This last has no relation to reality. No one is especially at fault; what is convenient to believe is greatly preferred.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

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.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

As demonstrated in Russia and numerous other countries, when faced with a choice between democracy without capitalism or capitalism without democracy, Western elites unhesitatingly embrace the latter.

De todos los sistemas económicos y sociales el capitalismo es, sin duda, el más natural. Eso ya basta para indicar que es el peor.

Capitalism place money at the centre of everything. While Socialism make the man at the centre of the universe.

Socialism turns a slave into a king while capitalism insists on keeping more slaves under the feet of the rich. Therefore, it is foolish to pretend to be a capitalist when you don't owe any capital yourself.

You can try to mix capitalism and socialism together, but you cannot be both at the same time! In the end, one system will always take over the other. Resulting in a true/false friendship.

You cannot pretend to be a humanitarian while praising capitalist regimes.

The problem is that capitalists typically don't know how to divide the pie well and socialists typically don't know how to grow it well.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

True capitalism can seem a lot like Nazism.