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“... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.”

“I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think that is mostly twaddle... The liquidity gives us these crazy booms, which have many problems as well as virtues.”

Thinking Giving Problem Common Virtue Crazy Capitalism Notion Contributors Liquidity

Author:Charlie Munger

“Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.”

States Waiting Cases Virtue Huge Capitalism Encouragement Discouragement

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues as Churchill attributed to democracy: It's the worst system except for any other. And I think that's right, but it cannot be thought that some unmitigated belief in free markets is a cure even from the efficiency point of view.”

Thinking Belief Levels Views Virtue Democracy Worst Capitalism Point Of View Cures Efficiency Distribution Free Market Flawed

Author:Kenneth Arrow

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

Values Ability Money Virtue Capitalism Lays Add Golden Eggs Commodity Occult Offspring Value Of Money Golden Eggs

Author:Karl Marx

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”

“Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.”

Social Interest Virtue Civilization Capitalism Logic Educate Unrest Vested Interests Social Unrest

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”

Economy Virtue Capitalism Roots

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.”

Nations Parent Freedom Liberty Virtue Capitalism Proportion 4th Of July Great Parents

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Source: The Churchill Wit

“Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.”

May Cases Virtue Capitalism Paid Rewards Rate

Author:Kenneth Arrow

“What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.”

“Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.”

Virtue Humility Capitalism Believer Arrogance

Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.”

Christian Order Virtue Produce Essentials Capitalism Traditional Stable Melting

Author:Antonin Scalia

“Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.”

Men Mean Self Law Interest Pay Moral Virtue Self Esteem Integrity Capitalism Vices Esteem Welfare Self Interest Propose Marketplace Bureaucrats Cardinals Trustworthiness Snooping

Author:Alan Greenspan

“Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action.”

Action Political Enemy Virtue Capitalism Breaths Trade Suits Executives Attempting Pins Political Enemies

Book:Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism

Source: Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism

“We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."”

Life Humans States Human Beings Enemy Virtue Poet Mass Capitalism Roots Forgotten Individuality Wit Abstract Melancholy Totality Collectivism Pretension Symmetry Iniquity Villa Irregularity

Book:1904-1912

Source: 1904-1912