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“If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.”

Ifs Giving Should Believe Christian Democracy Capitalism Fairs Paid Including Employee Pregnancy Capitalist Pie Dental

Author:Michael Moore

“Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.”

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

Ifs Left Force Poor Rich Capitalism Capitalist

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.”

Ifs States Running Social Natural Democracy Capitalism Social Systems

Author:John Ralston Saul

“If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.”

Ifs Company Type Capitalism Competition Fishes Giants Zero Regulation Monopoly

Author:Serj Tankian

“New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.”

Ifs Feels Believe Art Wanted Suffering Culture Force New York Capitalism Centre Conservatism American Culture

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.”

Ifs Humans Mean Today Used Fantasy Capitalism Scales Used To Be Behave Realism Sober Profitable Apocalyptic Unimaginable Devastation

Author:Terry Eagleton

“If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.”

Ifs World Should Humans Children States Today Law Social Causes Economy Economic Fit Capitalism Burden Remove Controlled Preacher Expanding Raising Children Inadequate Social Systems

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.”

People Ifs Suffering Force Poor Business Creative Worst Capitalism Profit Serving Graduation

Author:Bill Gates

“If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.”

Ifs Kind Reason Government Action Moral Weakness Capitalism Accounts Socialism Rejects Laissez Faire Fallibility

Book:Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

“There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work among the peasants during the co-operative movement and for a very long period after.”

Ifs Way Wells Long Political Movement Serious Periods Capitalism Socialism Tendencies Communism Neglect Peasants

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone.”

People Ifs Reality Politics Capitalism Stronger Myth Socialism Isms

Author:Arnold Beichman

“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 seize it with both hands and make the most of it.”

Ifs Giving Hands Opportunity Politics History Crime Capitalism Gangsters Great Opportunity Organized Crime Americanism American Capitalism Bootlegging

Author:Al Capone

“If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.”

Ifs World Chance Environment Capitalism Saving Pollution Save The World

Author:Judi Bari

“In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.”

“The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties”

Ifs States Certain Company Economic Fashion Degrees Capitalism Economics Difficulty Moved Contrary Adapted Administrative Economic Freedom Quirks French Fashion

Book:Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce

Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce

“Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market — that wonderful social machine — would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production," he wrote.”

“Why would you pour a foundation, buy machines, hire employees, if you can make as much money buying bonds?”

Ifs Capitalism Machines Foundation Buying Employee

Author:Frank Stronach

“Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.”

Ifs Knows Needs Reason Done Problem Passion Wish Difficult Interest Economic Ignorance Solutions Capitalism Difficulty Inertia Confronting Economic Problems

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people's mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what”

People Ifs Giving Democracy Failing Economic Produce Cost Capitalism Vote Entrepreneur Productions Consumers Farmers Capitalist Sovereign Lowest Pennies Right To Vote

Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.”

Ifs Firsts Facts Chance Deals Lord Beats Capitalism Library Tiny Fund Hospitals Despise Schemes Magnificent Our Lord Laboratory Niche Public Library Judas

Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

“The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.”

Ifs Seems Moving Culture Opportunity Failing Offers Capitalism Mere Prosperity Something New

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.”

Ifs States Democracy Economic Capitalism Enterprise Justified Governing

Author:Robert A. Dahl

“If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.”

Ifs World Want Needs Whole Problem Differences Wealth Poverty Rich Capitalism Whole World Plenty

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.”

Ifs Want Looks Children Grows Growing Up Capitalism Shoulders Productive

Author:Tavis Smiley

“I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state and church, which led to peaceful coexistence among different religions...so the same applies to economics. If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, and harmony and justice among men.”

“We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.”

Ifs Struggle Records Civilization Disease Capitalism Credit Capitalist

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle of all against all - it can be seen how the two practices emerge from and limit the extend of the disequilibrating impact of the contradiction involved in the geocultural agenda.”

Ifs Two Faces Energy Imagination Practice Struggle Return Involved Limits Capitalism Impact Contradiction Agendas Individualism Initiative Limitless Spurs

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals for government control in their ideal form, as they might work if run by able, disinterested men free from the pressure of special interest groups.”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.”

People Ifs Party Capitalism Built Angry Tiny Socialism Tea Reserves Fractions Tea Party Strivers

Author:Gail Collins

“Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in Third World nations be overcome if a new system is to prevail.”

Ifs World Order Nations Policy Broken Capitalism Thirds Overcoming Foreign Policy Imperialism Aristocracy Third World

Author:Michael Parenti

“If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?”

Ifs Has Beens Arms Capitalism Gold Bounds Legs Chains Swimming Pool Regulation Medal Gold Medals Swimmer Arms And Legs

Author:Peter Boettke

“If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.”

Ifs Care Jobs Dies Games Lost Dangerous Car Capitalism Extremes Thanks Health Care Fixed Good Food

Book:Attempting Normal

Source: Attempting Normal

“If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.”

Ifs Given Democracy Movement Needed Citizens Limits Capitalism Guides Nationalism Stability Threatening Disruption Demonstrating

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.”

Ifs Careers Capitalism Pounds Excess American Capitalism

Author:Greg Giraldo

“If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.”

People Ifs Trying Hands Winning Accepting Loneliness Capitalism Convince

Author:Tilda Swinton

“If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.”

Ifs Men Ideas Country Men And Women Capitalism Resources Fairs Labor Unions Labor Union Organized Labor Unionism Union Solidarity Labor And Capital

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Firsts Looks Eye Jesus Christ Devil Capitalism Jesus Christ Genuine Socialism Exploitation Socialist Through The Eyes

Author:Hugo Chavez

“The world’s biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn’t have food shortages.”

Ifs World Problem Capitalism Conservative Distribution Shortage

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want rich people to work you restore their incentive by giving them more, such as by cutting taxes.”

People Ifs Want Giving Social Poor Rich Cutting Taxes Capitalism Poor People Incentives Rich People Social Service

Author:Jim Stanford

“The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.”

Ifs States Government Today Law Adventure Tomorrow Politician Capitalism Conservative Uncertainty Presidential Capitalist Prudent Repealing

Author:William Henry Harrison

“If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.”

Ifs Reality Form Force Behinds Particular Capitalism Capacity Tests West Various Resistance Destructive Exploitation Globalization Motor

Book:Valences of the Dialectic

Source: Valences of the Dialectic

“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.”

People Ifs Would Be Funny Political Politics Business Economy Capitalism Good Business

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?”

Ifs Impossible Capitalism Socialism What If

Author:Ken MacLeod

“I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.”

Ifs Reason Capitalism Consistently Altruism Egoism Supremacy Selfish Reasons

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future”

Ifs Past Humanity Economy Society Economic Mankind Future Capitalism Economics Future Generation Past Present Future

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term”

Ifs Has Beens Seems Term Economy Capitalism Democratic Western Being True Elsewhere Market Economy Western Society

Author:Peter L. Berger

“The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.”

People Ifs Wells Civilization Capitalism Invention Socialism Well Being Dawn Contradiction Improving

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“If you lived with a roommate as unstable as this economic system, you would’ve moved out or demanded that your roommate get professional help.”

Ifs Funny Capitalism Economics Unpredictable Unstable Fickle Roommate Erratic

Author:Richard D. Wolff

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