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“Our democracy is not perfect. But it's better than the bloody dictatorships. Capitalism is unjust. But it's not criminal like Stalinism. We let millions of Africans die of AIDS, but we don't make racist nationalist declarations like Milosevic. We kill Iraqis with our airplanes, but we don't cut their throats with machetes like they do in Rwanda, etc.”
Alain Badiou
“World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.”
Ken Livingstone
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.”
Ronald Reagan
“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
“Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true”
Polish Proverb
“Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone”
Kenneth Minogue
“They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”
Fidel Castro
“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!”
Henrik Ibsen
“What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.”
Raymond Williams
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