Here are some interesting quotes regarding capitalism. Feel free to add your own. [View All]

[Electric Monk]

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


Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
- Al Capone

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
- Al Capone



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



For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
- Karl Liebknecht


Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
- Upton Sinclair


I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.
- Peter Matthiessen


If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
- John Ralston Saul


It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
- Barney Frank


The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
- Mikhail Gorbachev


What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
- Susan George


WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
-Julian Assange