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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

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

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

Fashion is capitalism's favourite child. — Werner Sombart

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. — Orson Scott Card

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

The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women's shame. — Laurie Penny

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

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 government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil. — Woody Harrelson

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me. — Zachary Levi

It's easier to imagine the death of the planet than it is to imagine the death of capitalism. — Henry Giroux

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

Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives. — Russ Roberts

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

The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything's on its head, it's a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction ... — Thomas Pynchon

It's impossible to say how much the decision to use the tsunami as an opportunity for disaster capitalism contributed to the return to civil war. — Naomi Klein

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

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor? — James Clavell

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

The world's biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn't have food shortages. — Rush Limbaugh

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections. — Sarah Palin

There's nothing pure about capitalism. — Michael Moore

It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth. — Marge Piercy

Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing. — James Surowiecki

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. — Malcolm X

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

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now." — Matthew Specktor

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's final victory will be that, as it destroys us, it has us all blaming each other. — Vic Grout

It's socialism that makes it bearable for us to live under capitalism. — Arnaldur Indridason

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. — Paul Ryan

Capitalism's surplus was enough to sate any rational autocrat. — Anonymous

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea. — Fran Lebowitz

There's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism. — Sarah Vowell

There is a force that conspires against you. It's called capitalism. It's closing your libraries so you can focus on your conspiracy shit. — Frankie Boyle

War is only a passing phase in business life ... If you want my opinion there's nothing like a spot of patriotism for blinding people to reality. — J.G. Farrell

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. — Calvin Trillin

We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that. — Charles Bukowski

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money ... — David Simon

Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system - it's created the highest standard of living. — Chris Chocola

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. — Ayn Rand

If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism. — Quentin R. Bufogle

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.
Yes, but the bank is only made of men. — John Steinbeck

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism. — Aleksandar Hemon

I think that for the developing world there are many versions of capitalism, and countries have to choose one that's appropriate. — Joseph Stiglitz

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. — Angela Carter

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. — Bill Gates

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other. — Frank Capra

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid. — Penn Jillette

The RCP's belief that capitalism was on the point of collapse started to look somewhat unconvincing. And — Michael Crick

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism. — James Cook

Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. — Maria Cantwell

For now, we live in the mall, but I think it's closing soon. — Grafton Tanner

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are capitalism made flesh. — Mark Kingwell

Chaplin is no businessman — Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

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

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

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

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

The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everything is falling to pieces around us. — Ayn Rand

Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two. — Edmund S. Morgan

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice. — Ed Miliband

Even the European critics ... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far. — Eli Roth

Free markets are the real people's revolution. — Jeffrey Tucker

Soviet imperialism's as bad as American capitalism. — David Mitchell

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form ... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema. — Jean-Luc Godard

I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream. — Brunello Cucinelli

The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism. — Frank Underhill

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around. — Russ Roberts

Democracy has become Empire's euphemism for neo-liberal capitalism. — Arundhati Roy

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism! — Matt Groening

When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism. — Charlie Munger

Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism. — Walter E. Williams

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty. — J.S.B. Morse

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

All we've got left to protect here is a system that's set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good. — William Gaddis

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. — Edmund Morris

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