A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Capitalism - Capitalists Quotes
When I say “capitalism,” I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism – with a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church.
Thus Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! You may ask why this does not end in a deadlock. The answer is it is producing […]
I’d say capitalism’s worst excess is in the large number of crooks and tinhorns who get too much of the action.
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
Capitalism is founded on greed and envy.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, sedition’s, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.
What kind of society isn’t structured on greed? 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.
