Capitalism Quotes - Page 2

• Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Comfort, World

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.108, Penguin

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• Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Running, Fake People

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

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• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

  Karl Marx

  Ghouls, Division Of Labor, Vampire

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• Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Numbers, People, World

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1076, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (2002). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

  David Korten

  Enemy, Democracy

  "Globalization and After". Book edited by Samir Dasgupta and Ray Kiely, 2006.

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• Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Korea, Want

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• Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

  Ron Paul

  Should, Deficit Spending, Preventive War

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Rights, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.219, Penguin

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

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Rights, Liberty

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• Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rights, Protection, Worthy

  Abraham Lincoln “Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln”, Lulu.com

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• Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Business, Sacrifice, Men

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• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  Orson Scott Card

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Homebody: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

  Al Capone

  Opportunity, Hands, History

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• Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.

  Mason Cooley

  Blood, Greedy, Thirsty

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• Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Social Unrest, Civilization, Logic

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.146, Routledge

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• Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

  Stokely Carmichael

  Stupid, Revolutionary

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• Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.

  James Madison

  Wisdom, Lying, Men

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

  Ayn Rand

  Liberty, Today, Tomorrow

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.8, Penguin

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• Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

  Francis Parker Yockey

  World, Economic, Outlook

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.111, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Exercise, Ideas, Fundamentals

  Ralph Barton Perry (1964). “Puritanism and Democracy”

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• If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Weakness, Laissez Faire

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Funny, Witty, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Beautiful, War, Intelligent

  John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”

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• The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

  Peter Brimelow

  Eugenics, Problem, Socialism

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