Quotes About Capitalism

Why do they all loathe capitalism? Why do they, while en-joying the well-being capitalism bestows upon them, cast long-ing glances upon the "good old days" of the past and the miser-able conditions of the present-day Russian worker?

Every sort of economic organization needs not only a mechanism for production but also a mechanism for distributing what is produced.

La gente puede estar en desacuerdo sobre la cuestión de si todos deberían estudiar economía en serio. Pero una cosa es segura. Un hombre que habla o escribe públicamente sobre la oposición entre el capitalismo y el socialismo sin haberse familiarizado completamente con todo lo que la economía tiene que decir sobre estos temas es un charlatán irresponsable.

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

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

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

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.

As a rule, capitalism is blamed for the undesired effects of a policy directed at its elimination. The man who sips his morning coffee does not say, "Capitalism has brought this beverage to my breakfast table." But when he reads in the papers that the government of Brazil has ordered part of the coffee crop destroyed, he does not say, "That is government for you"; he exclaims, "That is capitalism for you.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

The problem with capitalism is that we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible. And that's dangerous, he warns - we're not going to be able to exist in a global context if we are the bastards of our business.

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

He has said you can be a capitalist, and be a good person, or be a communist, and be good. What you can't be is a terrorist and a good person.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

I am pro-capitalism, and I am pro-free market.

Everyone's for free markets except when it affects your own business.

Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.

Free markets are amazing.