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There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

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

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

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

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.