The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.
Anatoly Chubais

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

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
Mikhail Gorbachev

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail Gorbachev

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

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.
Richard Stallman

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

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

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

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

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.
Anatoly Chubais

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

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Tse-Tung

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

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 only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
Al Capone

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
George Reisman

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

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

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Tony Benn

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.
John Blair