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We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. (Quote by - John McCarthy)

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers. (Quote by - Karl Liebknecht)

As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again. (Quote by - P. G. Wodehouse)

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. (Quote by - Richard Stallman)

Few great men could pass Personnel. (Quote by - Paul Goodman)

Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller. (Quote by - General Features Corporation)

All professions are a conspiracy against the country. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness. (Quote by - Conrad Black)

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service. (Quote by - James R. Cook)

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. (Quote by - Huey Newton)

To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary, double the wage and change the decimal to a comma. (Quote by - Don Tichnor)

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. (Quote by - Daniel De Leon)

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. (Quote by - Mikhail Gorbachev)

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. (Quote by - Frank Borman)

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving. (Quote by - Sylvia Pankhurst)

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I. (Quote by - Karl Liebknecht)

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. (Quote by - Peter L. Berger)

Business is more exciting than any game. (Quote by - Lord Beaverbrook)

The United States has practiced nuclear blackmail for many decades. (Quote by -Jr)

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreauv)

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. (Quote by - Alain Badiou)

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes (Quote by - Oswald Spengler)

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