Capitalism Quotes - page 5

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states. (Kenneth Waltz)
Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished? View quote
Kenneth Waltz
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. View quote
Pat Robertson
By "Revolution", we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars. View quote
Bhagat Singh
Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity. View quote
George Monbiot
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. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely. View quote
Malcolm X
Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work. View quote
Jeremy Hardy
It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy. View quote
Michal Kalecki
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food. (John Pilger)
I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism. View quote
Warren Buffett
The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse. View quote
Len Deighton
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. View quote
Barney Frank
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels. View quote
Enver Hoxha
The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism. View quote
Irving Kristol
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. View quote
Smedley Butler
We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism - and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capitals, raw materials, technicians and cheap labor, and to which they export new capitals - instruments of domination - arms and all kinds of articles; thus submerging us in an absolute dependence. View quote
Che Guevara
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. (Herbert Marcuse)
Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity! View quote
Lawrence Kudlow
At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism. View quote
Peter Brimelow