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  • Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism. -- Ron Paul
  • Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Fascism is capitalism in decay. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. -- Frank Borman
  • The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill
  • Capitalism needs war. -- Paul Murray
  • Capitalism is in crisis. -- Lech Walesa
  • Capitalism begins with giving. -- George Gilder
  • Capitalism is destroying the earth. -- Helen Caldicott
  • Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
  • Capitalism is an art form. -- Camille Paglia
  • Capitalism is the key to survival. -- Andrew Joseph Galambos
  • Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • Capitalism is a pretty brutal place. -- Charlie Munger
  • Capitalism is war; socialism is peace. -- Karl Liebknecht
  • Capitalism has only hurt Latin America. -- Evo Morales
  • Capitalism created the possibility of employment. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
  • We need a break from Capitalism, -- Kshama Sawant
  • Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities. -- Andrew Carnegie
  • Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system. -- Serj Tankian
  • Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity -- Evo Morales
  • Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere. -- David Foreman
  • Capitalism without capital is just an ism. -- Jesse Jackson
  • Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system -- Stokely Carmichael
  • Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Catholicism without Hell. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Capitalism is a system for determining objective value. -- Matt Taibbi
  • The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself. -- Mordecai Richler
  • Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. -- Stokely Carmichael
  • Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. -- Al Capone
  • Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system. -- Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism. -- Oswald Spengler
  • Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. -- Michael Moore
  • Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone. -- Kenneth Minogue
  • Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work. -- Edward Abbey
  • Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals -- Peter McWilliams
  • Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. -- Fidel Castro
  • Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor. -- Thomas Friedman
  • Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. -- Oswald Spengler
  • Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Capitalism is the most powerful tool for positive social change. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy. -- Jon Ronson
  • The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. -- Ayn Rand
  • Capitalism is an ability to stay rich and keep getting rich. -- Amit Kalantri
  • Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained. -- Bryan Appleyard
  • Capitalism is a funny name which lefties give to basic freedom. -- Fraser Nelson
  • Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us. -- Jo M. Sekimonyo
  • Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist. -- David Marusek
  • Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it. -- Ralph Nader
  • Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits. -- Jeremy Grantham
  • Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. -- Paul Hawken
  • Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility. -- James Surowiecki
  • Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords. -- David Remnick
  • Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away. -- Marilyn Manson
  • Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works. -- Richard M. Nixon
  • Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism. -- Benjamin Tucker
  • Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed. -- Walter Benjamin
  • Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them. -- Ian Mckellen
  • Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress. -- Nathaniel Branden
  • Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism -- Benjamin Tucker
  • who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism -- Allen Ginsberg
  • Capitalism is destroying Mother Earth, and to destroy Mother Earth is to destroy humanity. -- Evo Morales
  • Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital. -- Thomas Friedman
  • Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
  • Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work. -- Jeremy Hardy
  • Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy. -- David Korten
  • Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. -- Michael Douglas
  • Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse. -- Len Deighton
  • Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome. -- Hal Rothman
  • Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it. -- Ted Malloch
  • Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. -- Edward Abbey
  • Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism -- Murray Rothbard
  • Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity. -- Erich Fromm
  • Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy. -- Dan Rather
  • Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. -- Bill Gates
  • Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created. -- Eugene V. Debs
  • But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism! -- Matt Groening
  • Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. -- Ayn Rand
  • Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future. -- Allen W. Wood
  • Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty. -- Fidel Castro
  • Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies. -- Kshama Sawant
  • Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives. -- Russ Roberts
  • Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior. -- Allan H. Meltzer
  • Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude. -- Jonah Goldberg
  • Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
  • Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook. -- Francis Parker Yockey
  • Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook -- Francis Parker Yockey
  • ... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism. -- Fidel Castro
  • Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism. -- Fareed Zakaria
  • Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few. -- Michael Moore
  • Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. -- Ayn Rand
  • Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity. -- Johan Norberg
  • Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet. -- John Ralston Saul
  • Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism. -- Terry Eagleton
  • Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. -- Lester R. Brown
  • Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold. -- Marianne Williamson
  • I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change. -- Helen Mirren
  • Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it. -- Al Capone
  • Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either. -- Jim Stanford
  • It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park. -- Jim Moran
  • Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. -- Howard Zinn
  • Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other. -- Ben Shapiro
  • Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. -- Eric Hoffer
  • Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. -- C. L. R. James
  • Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. -- Ayn Rand
  • Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that. -- Bill Gates
  • Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work. -- Arundhati Roy
  • Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. -- Ayn Rand
  • Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. -- Karl Marx
  • Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • 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
  • Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system. -- Howard Warren Buffett
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