Failure Of Capitalism Quotes

#1. All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

Peter Boettke

#3. German-made Heckler & Koch MP-7 submachine guns with special compact M40 grenade launchers under the barrels.

Matthew Reilly

#4. A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#5. By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]

Pierre Corneille

#6. Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

Allan H. Meltzer

#7. MEG (to Dante, the vampire):Vampires aren't as cool as I expected them to be. In romance novels, vampires are all dark and broody and sexy. In real life, you talk an awful lot about stocks.

Sophie Oak

#8. The failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness.

Adrienne Rich

#9. Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

James Surowiecki

#10. I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

Charlie Munger

#11. This is what evil does; it makes choices for others in the name of religion, in the name of government, in the name of community, in the name of personal gain, that these individuals are best able to make for themselves.

John Kramer

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

Fidel Castro

#13. What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.

Ludwig Von Mises

#14. The credit crunch was based on a climate (the post-Cold War victory party of free-market capitalism), a problem (the sub-prime mortgages), a mistake (the mathematical models of risk) and a failure, that of the regulators.

John Lanchester

#15. Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward. Fortunemagazine{115}

Thomas Sowell

#16. Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday

J. Cole

#17. The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

P. J. O'Rourke

#18. Love? And not even some platonic cosmic love, but the carnal attraction between two mammals? Do you really think that an all-knowing super-computer or aliens who contrived to conquer the entire galaxy would be dumbfounded by a hormonal rush?' By

Yuval Noah Harari

#19. Keynes declared capitalism the best system ever devised to achieve a civilized economic society. But he recognized in it two major faults - its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Robert B. Reich

#20. The ultimate dream is a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Thalia

#21. [C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

James Grant

#22. I had believed there was no such thing as redemption. I knew now I was wrong. Redemption had not come from grand gestures of dashing bravery. It had not come from successfully completing twelve impossible labors. Instead, redemption transpired from the small, quiet places.

Brodi Ashton

#23. A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

Douglas Hurd

#24. I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

Dan Scanlon

#25. Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

Howard Zinn

#26. First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

Jimmy Carl Black

#27. In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

Lynne Truss

#28. We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

Rupert Murdoch

#29. For an American like me, growing up linked to a very different food chain, yet one that is also rooted in a field of corn, not to think of himself as a corn person suggests either a failure of imagination or a triumph of capitalism.

Michael Pollan

#30. Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

Seth Godin

#31. The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

Alfred Kazin

#32. I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.

Casey Neistat