I like business because it is honestly selfish, thereby avoiding the hypocrisy and sentimentality of the unselfish attitude.
—William Feather, 1927
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
—Norman Mailer, 1966
When we divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
—Daniel Webster, 1838
Extinguish free enterprise and you extinguish liberty.
—Margaret Thatcher, 1979
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right.
—Edward Abbey, 1990
Good medicine tastes bitter.
—Chinese proverb
Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic
ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but […] in itself is extremely objectionable.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1926
The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of
Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
—Winston Churchill, 1945
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by
the post office, even the sleaze.
—P. J. O’Rourke, 1989
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that
today is the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
—William Howard Taft, 1913
When everybody own something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in
maintaining or improving its condition.
—Milton Friedman, 1980
What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
—European proverb
Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a
leveling the mankind to death.
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1978
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore
or evade it.
—Thomas Sowell, 1997
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—William Feather, 1927
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
—Norman Mailer, 1966
When we divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
—Daniel Webster, 1838
Extinguish free enterprise and you extinguish liberty.
—Margaret Thatcher, 1979
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right.
—Edward Abbey, 1990
Good medicine tastes bitter.
—Chinese proverb
Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic
ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but […] in itself is extremely objectionable.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1926
The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of
Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
—Winston Churchill, 1945
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by
the post office, even the sleaze.
—P. J. O’Rourke, 1989
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that
today is the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
—William Howard Taft, 1913
When everybody own something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in
maintaining or improving its condition.
—Milton Friedman, 1980
What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
—European proverb
Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a
leveling the mankind to death.
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1978
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore
or evade it.
—Thomas Sowell, 1997
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On Government and Politics
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