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Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

Fashion is capitalism's favourite child.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

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.

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.

If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from capitalism in a sense.

I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback of freedom.

Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

Sex work is a completely unregulated industry and to make the affront even worse, the product and the labourers are the same thing! The product is the sexuality of the actual labourers: flesh. I think in that sense, the exploitative nature of unencumbered capitalism is made even more dramatic.

Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

The bureaucratic nature of both capitalism and our government assures us that there are no checks and balances when it comes to justifying any and all behavior that either makes money and secures the supposed peace of the nation-state.

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.