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I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell. — Hugo Chavez

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods. — Ludwig Von Mises

Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands. — Evo Morales

[C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick — Laura Kelly

Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen. — A.E. Samaan

Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans

The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself. — Mordecai Richler

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. — Michael Douglas

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

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia. — John McCain

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. — Lester R. Brown

Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal. — Vann Chow

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply. — Ludwig Von Mises

Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves. — Dinesh D'Souza

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail. — Stewart Udall

America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism. — Kenneth Langone

I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?' — Rush Limbaugh

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. — George Reisman

British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism — Fareed Zakaria

The Master said, "The gentleman does not serve as a vessel."
(Analects 2.12) — Confucius

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. — Mike Norton

If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich — Jim Rogers

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival. — Alfred Bester

Europe is not managing its capitalism very well, it is not a good advertisement of capitalism — Jack Goldstone

We're building a movement. It's undeniably a work in progress, but there's a fundamental desire to see capitalism to do something different. — Thomas Perez

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development. — Paul Hawken

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt. — Francis Wheen

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. — Herbert Marcuse

Open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best. — John Ringo

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey

If everyone stopped pretending
capitalism would drop dead — Carl-John X. Veraja

Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things. — Matthew Desmond

Capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling. — Leon Trotsky

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights. — A.E. Samaan

It is the reign of contemporary global capitalism which is the true Lord of Misrule. — Slavoj Zizek

If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan. — T.J. Clark

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit."
(Analects 4.16) — Confucius

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

The profit of the one is the profit of the other. — Frederic Bastiat

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism — Nathan Rosenberg

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants — Terence McKenna

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet. — Fawzi Ibrahim

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity — Guy Debord

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself. — Chris Hedges

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse. — Gregory Benford

When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars. — Norman Hartley

And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question. — Eric Hobsbawm

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations. — Suzy Kassem

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. — Robert Reich

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid. — Julie Rivkin

Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals — Peter McWilliams

You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail. — Gerald Celente

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism. — Vladimir Lenin

Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism. — Murray Rothbard

I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work. — Henry Paulson

The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate. — Timothy Snyder

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov

Chaplin is no businessman — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

We are capitalism made flesh. — Mark Kingwell

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. — Eric Hoffer

The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works. — Danny Meyer

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

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism. — Jeb Bush

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money. — Native American Saying

That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack) — Jamie Delano

Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created. — Eugene V. Debs

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons. — Judy Collins

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. — Leo Tolstoy

Fascism is capitalism in decay. — Vladimir Lenin

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand

In capitalism, man exploits man. In socialism, it's exactly the opposite. — Ben Tucker

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. — Garet Garrett

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism. — Patricia Marx

Capitalism's machinery favored these capitalists as it had never favored anyone else in its history. — Michael Lewis

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. — Susan George

American corporate capitalism is a murder-suicide mission. — Bryant McGill

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young

As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name. — William F. Buckley Jr.

The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job. — Bryant McGill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. — Winston S. Churchill

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw

The way to make the giving a free vote safe for a totalitarian capitalist regime is simple - make all political parties the same! — Dave Mearns

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook. — Francis Parker Yockey

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. — Hakim Bey

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world. — Lech Walesa

Hunger justifies the middle classes. — Julien Torma

You're seeing the first communist-produced automobile coming in to the U.S.. What I'm going to run on is a rebirth of capitalism. — John Raese

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell. — Charlie Munger

Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity! — Lawrence Kudlow

For capitalism to work, we all need one another. — Elizabeth Warren

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work. — Phil Donahue

Reality TV does actually have a message, folks. That message is selling and reinforcing capitalism, ignorance, and the status quo. — Kameron Hurley

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth. — Petrus Borel

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage. — Bernard Crick

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I. — Karl Liebknecht

can we imagine political institutions that might regulate today's global patrimonial capitalism justly as well as efficiently? — Thomas Piketty