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Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. -- Michael Moore
The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism. -- Ludwig von Mises
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won. -- Robert Heilbroner
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism. -- Tony Blair
There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country. -- Herbert Read
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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. -- Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism. -- Ludwig von Mises
In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system...The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment. -- Heinrich Himmler
I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist. -- Fidel Castro
Think of the problem of the world as a cart. It has to have two wheels. If you have one wheel, the cart doesn't go. If you have one wheel called socialism, it doesn't go. If you have only one wheel called capitalism, it doesn't go. It needs two wheels. These two wheels are capitalism and socialism. -- Benjamin Creme
Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats. -- Hannah Arendt
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace. -- Karl Liebknecht
Art is socialism but life is capitalism. -- Mike Birbiglia
We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism. -- James Cook
What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? -- Ken MacLeod
Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else. -- Robert Reich
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. -- Oswald Spengler
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes -- Oswald Spengler
It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism. -- James Cook
Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states. -- Kenneth Waltz
The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism. -- Mao Zedong
Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us. -- Jo M. Sekimonyo
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Will Rogers
Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it. -- Ralph Nader
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. -- George Bernard Shaw
The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism. -- Peter Brimelow
Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism. -- Robert Heilbroner
Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around. -- Russ Roberts
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism. -- Benjamin Tucker
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism -- Benjamin Tucker
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. -- Irving Kristol
Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works. -- Richard M. Nixon
While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice. -- Ed Miliband
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse. -- Len Deighton
Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs -- Margaret Thatcher
... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism. -- Fidel Castro
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism. -- Ernest Mandel
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich. -- James Grant
Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead. -- Vladimir Lenin
The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism. -- Frank Underhill
If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich -- Jim Rogers
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. -- Lester R. Brown
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. -- Hugo Chavez
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? -- Fidel Castro
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. -- John McCarthy
The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results. -- James Cook
Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible. -- Gus Hall
Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism. -- Ralph Nader
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. -- Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill
The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. -- Ludwig von Mises
Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings. -- Ludwig von Mises
Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself. -- Evo Morales
Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism. -- Star Parker
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. -- Walter Lippmann
Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils. -- Iain McGilchrist
A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home. -- Uday Kotak
When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name. -- Beck
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. -- Sidney Hook
For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for. -- Ludwig von Mises
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. -- Ludwig von Mises
I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it. -- Raul Castro
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. -- Rick Perlstein
What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public. -- Michael Moore
We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism -- Tony Benn
A new poll out taken by a Republican group that shows most Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism. Those terms don`t mean what they did maybe 40, 50 years ago. -- Chris Matthews
Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps. -- Ludwig von Mises
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... -- Janusz Korwin-Mikke
While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism. -- Chris Matthews
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. -- Hugo Chavez
Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box. -- Gus Hall

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