“The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.” WorldMayMadePoliticalPoliticsEffortEconomicProduceEssentialsCapitalismTraditionStructureCompetitionUnionsWesternSocialismMade ItCommunismFascinatingDivisionCommunistSovietBrutalDictatorSoviet UnionObserversMonopolySurvivingHumaneDisadvantagesPolitical PowerWestern WorldApproximationDispassionate Author:John Dos Passos
“If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for all, regardless of whether a man was able or not, resourceful or not, diligent or not, thrifty or not, if capitalism put no premiums on resourcefulness and effort and not penalty on idleness or vice, it would produce only an equality of destitution.” IfsThinkingMenAbleEffortEconomicConditionsProduceOughtCapitalismConstantVicesPenaltiesIdlenessDiligentEconomic SystemsResourcefulResourcefulnessThriftyLiving Conditions Author:Milton Friedman
“The pope is encouraging immigrants to come here. He's encouraging us to let them come here. He's encouraging us to stop any efforts whatsoever to prevent them from coming here. Why, if capitalism's so bad? 'Cause if he gets what he wants and everybody else along with him, we're not gonna be capitalists very much long. Here's what the pope said about Trump.” IfsWantLongSaidCausesEffortTrumpCapitalismImmigrantsCapitalistPope Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.” HumansHas BeensLastsTurnsEffortCenturyCapitalismRelationMonetaryHuman Relations Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi.” FirstsMadeOrderLevelsPartyEffortSituationRevolutionCapitalismConcernedIncludingBlowChinaPracticalsDefinedContributionTargetCapitalistChairmanRestorationAssessmentComradeMaoAvertFerretsChairman MaoCadrePractical Experience Author:Deng Xiaoping
“Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.” WorldTodayLanguageEffortCapitalismFocusedContradictionWorld TodayMao Author:Michael Yates
“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.” GivingHumansArtFeelingsCareFallDifficultLove IsEffortActivityCapitalismSpontaneousHuman Activity Author:Erich Fromm
“Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community; it is the only society in which the future, the needs for tomorrow, are entirely left to an automatic system.” NeedsHumansLeftCommunityEffortTomorrowConsciousCapitalismTraditionHuman History Author:Robert Heilbroner
“In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.” WorldMayPersonsFormSocialEffortRaceTechnologyDemocracyFateDependsSafeCapitalismTasksLibertarianGuidesOur TimeOur WorldCatastropheMachineryFundamentalistSingle PersonDemosSocial Democracy Author:Peter Thiel
“...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.” WorldHumansLittlesSelfHelpingSpeakEffortLibertyRightsShareCapitalismResponsibleHuman RightsPopulationConservativeExcellentCredentialsLittle Help Author:Margaret Thatcher
“..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in most circumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority.” WayIndividualEffortKnownCircumstancesActivityAuthorityCapitalismRegardMethodCompetitionSuperiorsEfficientFree MarketArbitraryInterventionBetter WaysIndividual Effort Author:Friedrich August von Hayek