Capitalism quotes

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◆ One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

- Carl Sagan100

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

- Winston Churchill100

◆ 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 Sowell99

◆ Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite

- Eastern Europe Proverb99

◆ 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 Keynes99

◆ While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

- Karl Marx99

◆ Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone

- Kenneth Minogue99

◆ The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

- Jawaharlal Nehru99

◆ Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true

- Polish Proverb99

◆ History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom

- Milton Friedman99

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

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ 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 Russell99

◆ Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

- Al Capone99

◆ Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?

- Lucy Parsons99

◆ 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 Capone99