Capitalism Quotes - Page 9

• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Decay, Politics

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• If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Law, Causes

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• It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.

  Alexandra Kollontai

  Inspirational, Country, Future

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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  We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, Country, Power

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• Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

  Howard Zinn

  Class, Failing, Middle

  "A People's History of the United States". Book by Howard Zinn (Chapter 24), 1980.

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• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Independent, Labor Day

  Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1861

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• To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Men, Individual

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Unemployment, Bread, Ability

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.286, VM eBooks

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• All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British capitalism developed, precisely in the age called the Industrial Revolution in England, in the years from 1760 to 1830, precisely in those years the population of England doubled.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Years, Age, Population

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.7, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Opportunity, Culture

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

  Ayn Rand

  Giving Up, Men, Liberty

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• We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Liberty, Socialism

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• I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state and church, which led to peaceful coexistence among different religions...so the same applies to economics. If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, and harmony and justice among men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Justice, Peaceful

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• It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sports, Art, Literature

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'". www.nytimes.com. April 25, 1971.

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• What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hands, Bravery, Jupiter

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.77, Graphic Arts Books

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• The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Civilization, Agriculture

  "Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition".

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• Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

  Pope Francis

  Pain, Responsibility, Compassion

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.

  Bethany McLean

  Army, Two, Rivals

  Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera (2011). “All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis”, p.189, Penguin

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• For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

  Clara Zetkin

  Crush, Class, Reform

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• Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

  David Remnick

  Russia, Als, Capone

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• The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

  Jim Cramer

  People, Cards, Credit

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• One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Change, Transition, Might

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?'". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

  John Naisbitt

  Commitment, Best Kept Secrets, America

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• 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

  Country, Believe, Numbers

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