Quotes with ‘capitalism

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

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  • Bertrand Russell 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
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Pete Holiday Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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  • Milton Friedman History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Daniel S. Loeb As a friend said to me, ‘Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.’
    Daniel S. Loeb
    American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist (1961 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
    As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Bernie Sanders Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • C. L. R. James Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter 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
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Stokely Carmichael Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Camille Paglia Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Mohsin Hamid Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes Capitalism is the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • John Maynard Keynes 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
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Al Capone Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Ben Shapiro Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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