• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 79 reads

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• Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 105 reads

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• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 62 votes · 55 reads

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• I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.4 · 11 votes · 40 reads

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• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which ar

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 81 reads

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• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 191 reads

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• 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.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  4.4 · 34 votes · 105 reads

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• The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 7 reads

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• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 120 reads

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• 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.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.2 · 10 votes · 73 reads

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• The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.9 · 42 votes · 190 reads

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• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 117 reads

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• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 2 reads

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• To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.2 · 47 votes · 105 reads

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• Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.3 · 41 votes · 120 reads

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• You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 51 reads

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