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“A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.”

People Heart Said Use Values Father Capitalism Asking Notes Lovely Socialism Superiors Golden Communism Relative Jesuit Relative Value

Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration”

“East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.”

People Materials Mass Standards Capitalism Capacity East Superiors Asia Standards Of Living East Asia

Book:The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty

Source: The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty

“Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated against the non-existent, non-realizable utopias of socialism or communism. Any earthly system, when compared to a Utopia, will pale in comparison. But for the ordinary person, capitalism, with all of its warts, is superior to any system yet devised to deal with our everyday needs and desires.”

Needs Wells Persons Reason Desire Deals Ordinary Capitalism Miracle Everyday Socialism Superiors Despite Communism Comparison Pale Popularity Polls Utopia Ordinary Person Warts

Author:Walter E. Williams

“Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.”

Capitalism Superiors Feudalism

Author:Deng Xiaoping

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

“Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.”

Perfect Capitalism Superiors Not Perfect Isms

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“..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.”

Way Individual Effort Known Circumstances Activity Authority Capitalism Regard Method Competition Superiors Efficient Free Market Arbitrary Intervention Better Ways Individual Effort

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.”

Men Mean Able Wish Ability Conditions Masters Mass Capitalism Majority Profit Equality Superiors Inferiors Gifted Superiority Superior Man Egalitarianism

Book:Money, method, and the market process: essays

Source: Money, method, and the market process: essays