The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Capitalism - Capitalists Quotes
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.
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: “No man should have so much.” The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: “All men should have as much.”
