Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the market-place will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.
Capitalism - Capitalists Quotes
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
In the last 30 years I’ve watched a catastrophe unfold that is tearing the country apart. You see the family declining, people’s earnings declining, one group of people hating another group. It’s the result of an economic system that ignores values that don’t have a price tag on them. It doesn’t care whether people are […]
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair!
Why is our free-enterprise system so strong? Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities.
And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
The quest for novelty is the essence of capitalist endeavour, as it is of all human progress, and the appetite for adventure is a sharper spur than cupidity. Those who pillory capitalism for “creating artificial needs” strike me as timid and dismal souls. You might just as well denounce Monet for creating an “artificial need” […]
The problem with capitalism is not that there are too many capitalists, but rather, too few.
