Capitalism Quotes

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

Blessings, Socialism, Virtue

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.
Pat Robertson

Women, Children, Political

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

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

Power, Self, Belief

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell

Liberty, Tyranny, Exercise

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
Ron Paul

Money, System, Interest

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
Hugo Chavez

Path, Possible, Socialism

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

Since, Condemned

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

Anyone, Move, Wants

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

Good, Men, Greatest

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas Sowell

Cannot, Else, Color

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

Likes, Microsoft, Pc

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
Bill Gates

Powerful, Bad, Democracy

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
Warren Buffett

Important, American, Getting

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
Bill Gates

Done, Down, Wonderful

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Fran Lebowitz

Democracy, Country, Union

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
Milton Friedman

Greed, Problem, Social

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Communism, Opposite, Exploits

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro

War, Find, Hypocrisy

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton Friedman

History, Freedom, Political

Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Vladimir Lenin

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson

Women, Children, Become

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
P. J. O'Rourke

Success, Failure, Happen

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.
Paul Ryan

Money, Successful, Small

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro

Success, Failure, America

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
Frank Borman

Hell, Bankruptcy

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin

Give, Possible, Stage

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

Economics, Corrupt, Prosperity

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
Camille Paglia

Women, Living, Standard

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh

Saying, Country, Strange

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