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Capitalism

Making capitalism out of socialism is like making eggs out of an omelet. – Vadim Bakatin

Publicity is the life of this culture — in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive — and at the same time publicity is its dream. – John Berger

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. – Frank Borman

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. – Norman O. Brown

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. – Albert Camus

What kind of society isnt structured on greed? 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

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. – Mahatma Gandhi

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital. – Henry George

Our alternative is either to stick to a moral tradition which we haven – Friedrich A. Hayek

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. – Edward Heath

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. – Eric Hoffer

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. – Pete Holiday

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything. – Nikita Khrushchev

The call for free markets would be more successful if it came from more sympathetic people. – Gerhard Kocher

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. – Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform. – Percy Wynham Lewis

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. – Abraham Lincoln