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Quotes About Capitalism

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
~ Henry George
Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
~ Alexander Berkman
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
~ Iris Chang
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
~ Ronald Reagan
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
~ Robert Heilbroner
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.
~ Karl Kautsky
Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
~ Ralph Steadman
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
~ Mitt Romney
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
~ C. L. R. James
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
~ Peter Schiff
What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production
~ Ludwig von Mises
The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.
~ James Cook
No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.
~ Roseanne Barr
Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.
~ Al Capone
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.
~ Richard A. Falk
The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.
~ Volkmar Sigusch
This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
~ Al Capone
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
~ Joseph Goebbels
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
~ Karl Liebknecht
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
~ Fidel Castro
Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.
~ Bruce Rauner