Top 33 Market Socialism Quotes
#1. When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me.
Alice Barrett
#2. I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. - Psalm 16:8
Gary Chapman
#3. There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.
Ludwig Von Mises
#4. I think socialism is really about recognizing that there are limits to what the market can do. The market is very useful; at times it works very well, but it doesn't always work.
Gillian Tett
#5. You're frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.
Steve Maraboli
#6. Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#7. The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.
Noam Chomsky
#8. As much as I say that market economy is a more aggressive, expansile form of command economy, I say now that democracy is a more aggressive, expansile form of dictatorship. The sin of democracy and any types of -cracy is their numbers.
Andreas Laurencius
#9. The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.
Noam Chomsky
#10. The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
Ludwig Von Mises
#11. What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.
Sigmar Gabriel
#12. The decisions of today become the foundation of tomorrow. Make those decisions wisely!
Raven Williams
#14. The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
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The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers.
Lao-Tzu
#15. Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.
Ralph Nader
#16. The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.
Vaclav Klaus
#17. Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
Ludwig Von Mises
#18. The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.
Leonard Read
#19. I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
Howard Fast
#20. We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#21. The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
Ludwig Von Mises
#22. A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
Deng Xiaoping
#23. The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.
Gideon Haigh
#24. Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough.
Michael Zadoorian
#25. You must not think that because one thing happens after another thing, then it is the first thing that causes the second thing. You must not think that, because it might not be true.
Alexander McCall Smith
#26. ...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.
Francis Wheen
#27. When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.
Ben Shapiro
#28. 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
#29. Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.
Dick Morris
#30. Breathing will change your life! Breathing is the most important thing you will ever do.
Dean Williams
#32. Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community
Tony Benn
#33. The word lust [can] mean "selfish desire." ... It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay.
Billy Graham