Capitalism Quotes

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." "Socialism doesn't work because people need to be free" "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners" "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency" "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas" "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people" "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." "The world is going to have more and more of a winner-take-all economy." "Society will pay you for creating things it wants" "The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." "Capitalism has not been a single coherent economic theory. It is instead a loose collection of doctrines and courses of action." "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom." "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself" "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff" "The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights" "The Wealth of Nations is the Bible of capitalism" "The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it" "The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer" "Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable"