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Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. (Quote by - Stokely Carmichael)

One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it. (Quote by - Michael Moore)

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. (Quote by - Larry Elder)

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. (Quote by - Tony Benn)

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. (Quote by - Al Capone)

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. (Quote by - J. K. Galbraith)

Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself. (Quote by - George Brockway)

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing. (Quote by - German proverb)

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. (Quote by - Hugo Chavez)

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. (Quote by -Felix Frankfurter)

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)

A company is judged by the president it keeps. (Quote by - James Hulbert)

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. (Quote by - Karl Marx)

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. (Quote by - George Reisman)

You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)

In economics, the majority is always wrong. (Quote by - J. K. Galbraith)

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. (Quote by -Polish Proverb)

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. (Quote by - Adam Smith)

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country. (Quote by - Herbert Read)

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