Capitalism Quotes That’ll Make You Leave the Means of Production Alone
Before we get to the capitalism quotes, let us ask you: Is capitalism perfect? Not remotely. But that begs a follow-up question: Are people perfect?
One can argue that communism, which holds that people would be better off without greed, is better than capitalism. One can also argue that people would be better off if they were able to fly. According to the communist’s logic, that would mean we had better begin pushing people off of rooftops.
Enemies of capitalism are quick to point out that it is an imperfect system, yet also advocate for an even more imperfect system to take its place. They want to remove people who are rewarded by production from the economy, and replace them with people who are rewarded by controlling others. The former will put food on the table; the latter will put people in gulags.
Who are capitalism’s greatest enemies? I count three. The first are politicians, who see capitalism as an obstacle separating them from their citizens’ wealth. That wealth also insulates their citizens from the politicians’ influence, which must surely stick in the craw of any would-be tyrants.
The second are businesspeople themselves, who look to the government as their ultimate ace in the hole when it comes to beating competition. If an elite corps of producers can make itself the communist politicians’ key supporter, then they can compel legislation which puts their rivals out of business.
The third are people who cannot fathom what it might be like to possess marketable skills. They look at the wealthy with contempt, believing they could only have gotten that way through chicanery and exploitation. In fairness, plenty of crooks ascend to the highest rungs of society, but this conveniently ignores everyone who made their money by contributing something useful to the world. This is an ability communists seldom, if ever, possess.
For the sake of expediency, we could also divide communists into just two classes: Those who insist real communism has never been implemented and demand that we finally give it a chance, and those who know exactly what kind of nightmare world communism creates and want you to live in it.
“Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.”
– Henry Hazlitt
“The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice.”
– Henry Hazlitt
“Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist.”
– Murray Rothbard
“In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you’re talking about, the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade.”
– Milton Friedman
“The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.”
– Milton Friedman
“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.”
– Walter E. Williams
“I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.”
– Friedrich Hayek
“Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.”
– H. L. Mencken
“Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man’s right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.”
– Ayn Rand
“The moral justification of capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man’s rational nature, that it protects man’s survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice.”
– Ayn Rand
“Corresponding to the four branches of philosophy, the four keystones of capitalism are: metaphysically, the requirements of man’s nature and survival – epistemologically, reason – ethically, individual rights, politically, freedom.”
– Ayn Rand
“The economic value of a man’s work is determined, on a free market, by a single principle: by the voluntary consent of those who are willing to trade him their work or products in return. This is the moral meaning of the law of supply and demand.”
– Ayn Rand
“Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships. By the nature of its basic principles and interests, it is the only system fundamentally opposed to war.”
– Ayn Rand
“Capitalism demands the best of every man – his rationality – and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.”
– Ayn Rand
“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
– Ayn Rand
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!”
– Ludwig von Mises
“Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.”
– Thomas L. Friedman
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
– Winston Churchill
“We have been ruled by men who live by illusions … the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.”
– Margaret Thatcher
“Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein
“Socialism is a plan of morally sanctioned theft. It is about dividing up what others have created. Consequently, socialist economies don’t work; they create poverty instead of wealth. This is unarguable historical fact now, but that has not prompted the left to have second thoughts.”
– David Horowitz
“As we’ve learned from countless examples throughout history, including now Venezuela, the main difference between capitalism and socialism is this: Capitalism works.”
– Mark J. Perry
“All systems are capitalist. It’s just a matter of who owns and controls the capital — ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.”
– Ronald Reagan
“Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher’s England to Deng’s Dhina, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty than ever in human history.”
– Charles Krauthammer
“A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.”
– Ron Paul
“Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism.”
– Ron Paul
“Capitalism is not an ‘ism.’ It is closer to being the opposite of an ‘ism,’ because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.”
– Thomas Sowell
“Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.”
– Thomas Sowell
“One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.”
– Thomas Sowell
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
– John Maynard Keynes, under the inexplicable belief that politicians are not the wickedest of men
“Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.”
– Fidel Castro, whose solution to poverty was creating more of it
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A special note on communism. Both communism and capitalism are unnatural commercial models invented by monetary and political scientists and forced upon the world through conquest, revolution, legislation, incrementalism, and subterfuge. Capitalism is no more a natural and evolutionary progression from mercantilism as is communism a natural and evolutionary progression from capitalism. As capitalism is not a natural commercial evolution, it follows that neither is communism. When one compares the nature of both commercial models using the definition of capitalism provided earlier, one finds that in both systems investment risk is not wholly borne by entrepreneurs or state entities and their creditors, but instead spread over the entirety of society through the deployment of fiat money connected to a fractional reserve banking system. The aggregate accumulating gains or losses in fiat money from commercial activity in both systems never puts the underlying reserves of gold held by either capitalist or communist central banks at risk. Furthermore, both systems employ opaque central banks to set monetary policy and both systems have fiat empires attached to their home countries. Additionally, as both systems issue loans at interest, the accumulating amount of loans grows much faster than the underlying value of reserves held in “trust”, and this widening disparity depreciates the “value” of each systems fiat money equally. This depreciation generates the inflation required in each system to simulate economic “growth” and the illusion of “prosperity”. All aggregate losses from individual or state commercial activities are socialized to both participants and non-participants of commercial activity through this process of inflation. Both systems tax their subjects, both systems rely heavily on war for economic “stimulus”, and both systems will tolerate no rival to their fiat empires. Both see the other as the enemy, both strive for the destruction of the other, and both claim the moral and righteous prerogative. Despite nearly 100 years of animosity, wars both hot and cold, and entire military infrastructures designed at the ready to destroy the other, there is at their fundamental cores no operating difference between communism and capitalism, and for all practical purposes they are identical systems. Thus communism and capitalism are, in fact, the equivalence of choice between baked and boiled potatoes in political economy.
Once again I’ll post what the creators of Capitalism and Communism have to say about it. You are correct by the way. Just left out a small detail I’ll furnish.
Understanding the Cabalist Left vs Right Charade
November 24, 2019
lya_otto_h_kahn.jpg(left, Otto Kahn, 1867-1934)
“We Control Both Left & Right” — Kuhn Loeb Banker
In a candid dinner conversation after WW1, Kuhn Loeb partner Otto Kahn
was asked why the Capitalist bankers supported Communism.
He replied they both have “an identical purpose, the remaking
of the world from above by the control of riches, [Right]
and from below by revolution [Left.]” They are all Freemasons (Cabalists.)
Their final goal is the deification of the Rothschild banking cartel posing as
representatives of the Jewish people.
Hence we have the Communist faction on the Left (globalist, homosexual, migration, US Demonrats, Canada, EU, Sweden, Russia, Iran, and China) and the Zionist faction on the Right (nationalist, heterosexual, US, UK, Brazil, Bolivia, Hungary.) Israel is at the fulcrum. No nationalist is ever critical of Israel.
“We shall purify the idea [of God] by identifying it with the nation of Israel, which has become its own Messiah. The advent of it will be facilitated by the final triumph of Israel… ”
Idiots who think those books have value have destroyed our country. Don’t be so dumb as to think all this fifty-year-old sloganeering has anything to do with how we get out of the situation we are in now. It won’t help at all. Man up. It’s a different day. Every single conservative and every single liberalatarian Institution was so fucking cheap to buy. So fucking cheap. Writing article after article after white paper after white paper like a bunch of parakeets repeating the only 3 words they know. Worthless human beings. Worthless
Hey Star. Haven’t heard from you much since you were tonguing the asshole of that police chief that caused the Stoneman Douglas massacre. Still trying to get the taste out of your mouth?
B_MC
October 20, 2021 7:55 pm
Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man.
So I guess post-capitalism looks pretty much the same, no?
Guest
October 20, 2021 9:14 pm
Ok. SOMEBODY is at war with China.
Several years bad crops, pork diseases, flooding.
Bond crises, ever worsening.
Their ships (mostly theirs) not unloading so they don’t get paid.
Perhaps the covid thing was much worse there than we know, too.
Maybe others have realized this, but I didn’t until now.
Who that somebody is…Russia, other factions in China itself, TPTB?
While this going on there are more and more articles that China is threatening us (ginning up suspicions) but perhaps they have reason?
Don’t get me wrong, they are bad guys, but haven’t we learned these wars don’t start for the reasons given.
They are the bad guys? Our presidents, plural, and both the house and senate past and present made them what they are today with a lot of top secret help from our owners in that tiny country that shall not be named. We transferred everything we had of any value to Asia and mostly to China. Prior to that they were using Korean surplus Migs and Old T-34 Tanks.
That was just for starters.
Lately we have decided we need a new enemy because the old ones were dead or losing their glossy shine. So what to do. How about this one.
Well…there always is the self-inflicted dammed…Three Gorges Dam.
(Nicknamed the Three Cracks Dam).
Talk about a looming reverse Red Sea moment…
Maybe the Chicoms know it’s obvious buckling bursting is inevitable…nothing they can do to fix it…going to need a lot of sea to shining sea fruited plain farmland somewhere to control/empty out/migrate to…hmmm…
A special note on communism. Both communism and capitalism are unnatural commercial models invented by monetary and political scientists and forced upon the world through conquest, revolution, legislation, incrementalism, and subterfuge. Capitalism is no more a natural and evolutionary progression from mercantilism as is communism a natural and evolutionary progression from capitalism. As capitalism is not a natural commercial evolution, it follows that neither is communism. When one compares the nature of both commercial models using the definition of capitalism provided earlier, one finds that in both systems investment risk is not wholly borne by entrepreneurs or state entities and their creditors, but instead spread over the entirety of society through the deployment of fiat money connected to a fractional reserve banking system. The aggregate accumulating gains or losses in fiat money from commercial activity in both systems never puts the underlying reserves of gold held by either capitalist or communist central banks at risk. Furthermore, both systems employ opaque central banks to set monetary policy and both systems have fiat empires attached to their home countries. Additionally, as both systems issue loans at interest, the accumulating amount of loans grows much faster than the underlying value of reserves held in “trust”, and this widening disparity depreciates the “value” of each systems fiat money equally. This depreciation generates the inflation required in each system to simulate economic “growth” and the illusion of “prosperity”. All aggregate losses from individual or state commercial activities are socialized to both participants and non-participants of commercial activity through this process of inflation. Both systems tax their subjects, both systems rely heavily on war for economic “stimulus”, and both systems will tolerate no rival to their fiat empires. Both see the other as the enemy, both strive for the destruction of the other, and both claim the moral and righteous prerogative. Despite nearly 100 years of animosity, wars both hot and cold, and entire military infrastructures designed at the ready to destroy the other, there is at their fundamental cores no operating difference between communism and capitalism, and for all practical purposes they are identical systems. Thus communism and capitalism are, in fact, the equivalence of choice between baked and boiled potatoes in political economy.
– Financialization and the Road to Zero
Once again I’ll post what the creators of Capitalism and Communism have to say about it. You are correct by the way. Just left out a small detail I’ll furnish.
Understanding the Cabalist Left vs Right Charade
November 24, 2019
lya_otto_h_kahn.jpg(left, Otto Kahn, 1867-1934)
“We Control Both Left & Right” — Kuhn Loeb Banker
In a candid dinner conversation after WW1, Kuhn Loeb partner Otto Kahn
was asked why the Capitalist bankers supported Communism.
He replied they both have “an identical purpose, the remaking
of the world from above by the control of riches, [Right]
and from below by revolution [Left.]” They are all Freemasons (Cabalists.)
Their final goal is the deification of the Rothschild banking cartel posing as
representatives of the Jewish people.
Hence we have the Communist faction on the Left (globalist, homosexual, migration, US Demonrats, Canada, EU, Sweden, Russia, Iran, and China) and the Zionist faction on the Right (nationalist, heterosexual, US, UK, Brazil, Bolivia, Hungary.) Israel is at the fulcrum. No nationalist is ever critical of Israel.
“We shall purify the idea [of God] by identifying it with the nation of Israel, which has become its own Messiah. The advent of it will be facilitated by the final triumph of Israel… ”
From the following from a conversation Otto Kahn had with the French Ambassador to London explaining how they create and own both Capitalism and Communism to achive their world dominion.
https://www.henrymakow.com/geneva_versus_peace.html?_ga=2.92537949.1325854900.1632164416-585894304.1630817101
I also noticed he’s using a free site to advertize his Tee-shirts for sale.
Can someone explain how this is not G.R.E.E.D?
Thank you. This post deserved the rebuke.
Three indispensable books of a successful, free and prosperous society:
ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON
Henry Hazlett
MAN, ECONOMY AND THE STATE
Murray Rothbard
ATLAS SHRUGGED
Ayn Rand
Idiots who think those books have value have destroyed our country. Don’t be so dumb as to think all this fifty-year-old sloganeering has anything to do with how we get out of the situation we are in now. It won’t help at all. Man up. It’s a different day. Every single conservative and every single liberalatarian Institution was so fucking cheap to buy. So fucking cheap. Writing article after article after white paper after white paper like a bunch of parakeets repeating the only 3 words they know. Worthless human beings. Worthless
Exactly.
Hey Star. Haven’t heard from you much since you were tonguing the asshole of that police chief that caused the Stoneman Douglas massacre. Still trying to get the taste out of your mouth?
So I guess post-capitalism looks pretty much the same, no?
Ok. SOMEBODY is at war with China.
Several years bad crops, pork diseases, flooding.
Bond crises, ever worsening.
Their ships (mostly theirs) not unloading so they don’t get paid.
Perhaps the covid thing was much worse there than we know, too.
Maybe others have realized this, but I didn’t until now.
Who that somebody is…Russia, other factions in China itself, TPTB?
While this going on there are more and more articles that China is threatening us (ginning up suspicions) but perhaps they have reason?
Don’t get me wrong, they are bad guys, but haven’t we learned these wars don’t start for the reasons given.
They are the bad guys? Our presidents, plural, and both the house and senate past and present made them what they are today with a lot of top secret help from our owners in that tiny country that shall not be named. We transferred everything we had of any value to Asia and mostly to China. Prior to that they were using Korean surplus Migs and Old T-34 Tanks.
That was just for starters.
Lately we have decided we need a new enemy because the old ones were dead or losing their glossy shine. So what to do. How about this one.
The first of a series showing the connections.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-covid-bioweapon-made-in-the-usa-aimed-at-china/
Here are the others.
https://www.unz.com/page/covid-biowarfare-articles/
Well…there always is the self-inflicted dammed…Three Gorges Dam.
(Nicknamed the Three Cracks Dam).
Talk about a looming reverse Red Sea moment…
Maybe the Chicoms know it’s obvious buckling bursting is inevitable…nothing they can do to fix it…going to need a lot of sea to shining sea fruited plain farmland somewhere to control/empty out/migrate to…hmmm…
For research wonks only: https:
They would definitely like the farmland and have the patience to wait.
https://www.survivethenews.com/boom-sheet-metal-air-rail-and-transportation-union-smart-with-203000-members-announces-stand-against-forced-vaccines/
AS much as I dislike unions this is a good thing, people have to stand up in massive numbers and if it takes a union to stop the insanity, so be it.
The only true free market is the black market.
Isn’t a black market distorted by it’s illegal, therefore surreptitious, nature?
Barter.