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• Capitalism only works well when it has a strong opposition, because that forces it to be more egalitarian than it wants to be.

  Paul Sweezy

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• I’ve never been antiregulation. I’ve always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn’t work.

  Henry Paulson

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• Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

  Jasper Fforde

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• If a person has no conscience, it’s called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it’s called capitalism.

  Quentin R. Bufogle

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• The government may change faces from time to time, but it’s not like we fight wars for democracy – we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.

  Woody Harrelson

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  The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics.

  R. Alan Woods

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• We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.

  Fred Hampton

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• Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn’t another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

  Mohsin Hamid

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  Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.

  John Maynard Keynes

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• Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

  Upton Sinclair

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• Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

  James Surowiecki

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  A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that cost and risk are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

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• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free enterprises and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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• It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

  Winston Churchill

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• Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

  Bertrand Russell

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• Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

  David Remnick

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• What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

  Ken MacLeod

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• Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

  Dan Rather

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• Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

  Bill Gates

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