Quotes About Capitalism

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money, doesn't that make it the root of all evil?

Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. 'Corporation' is just the most recent name for it.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.