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“Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.”

Giving May Money Produce Protect Capitalism Tables Workers Golden Eggs Geese Living Wage Golden Eggs

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.”

Needs Protect Capitalism Prison Criminals

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or circuses, by war or schooling, by armies and police, all of which are enabled and empowered by technology. That is what we might call the stick part of capitalism, while the riches-for-the-few is the carrot.”

War Use Government Might Technology Protect Capitalism Army Police Sticks Riches Bread Empowered Circus Schooling Carrots Use Of Technology

Author:Kirkpatrick Sale

“Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the destructive effects of market forces because they don't want everything destroyed.”

Want Self Strong Force Class Effects Protect Capitalism Destroyed Destructive Intervention Self Destruct

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.”

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree - and thus keeps the road open to man's most valuable attribute: the creative mind.”

Men Mind Problem Creative Protect Capitalism Agree Institutions Property Valuable Crucial Disagree Attributes Private Property Creative Mind

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although the mandate of the Bank of Canada was to maintain a delicate balance between encouraging growth and fighting inflation, the Bank opted to focus exclusively on fighting inflation. In doing so it came down heavily in favour of those with financial assets to protect, and against those whose primary need was employment.”

“It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.”

Men Reason Facts Use Protect Survival Capitalism Connections Metaphysical

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“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