Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

-Borman, Frank
  In US, 21  Apr.

Capitalism requires people to be pious souls in the workplace, wild pagans at the cash register.

-Chernow, Ron
  In The Wall Street  Journal, 31  Aug.

   The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning† The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.

-Gleick,James
  In the NewYork Times Magazine,1 May.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism, I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

-Hampton, Christopher
  Savages, sc.16.

It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.

-Hearst,William Randolph
  House of Commons,15 May, referring to the Lonrho tax- avoidance scandal involving 'Tiny' Rowland, owner of Harrods and the London and Rhodesia company.

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

-Hearst,William Randolph
  Election campaign speech,18 Feb.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

-Kinnock, Neil Gordon
  In Tribune.

No government isgoing to take from me my right to speak, my right to protest against wrong, my right to do everything that is for the benefit of mankind.I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot.

-Maclean,John
  Speech at his trial at the High Court, Edinburgh, 9 May, quoted in Nan Milton John Maclean (1973), ch.3.

There is no such thing as communism versus capitalism. There are only degrees of communism and degrees of capitalism.

-Nguyen, Xuan Oanh
  In the Eastern Express,17 May.

Can capitalism survive? No, I do not think it can.

-Schumpeter,Joseph Alois
  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, p.61.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

-Small, AlbionW
  'AVision of Social Efficiency', in the AmericanJournal of Sociology, Jan.

The tombstone of capitalism†with windows.

-Still, Bayrd
  Of the Rockefeller Center. Mirror for Gotham.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

-Stoppard, SirTom originally Tom Straussler
  Travesties.

Capitalism only works well when it has a strong opposition, because that forces it to be more egalitarian than it wants to be.

-Sweezy, Paul Malor
  Interview in The Progressive, May.

In a country that is economically backward, the proletariat can take power earlier than in countries where capitalism is advanced.

-Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein
The Permanent Revolution.

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to dowith capitalism.Thisimpulse exists among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.One may say that it has been common to all sorts and conditions of men at all times and in all cultures of the earth, wherever the objective possibility of it is or has been given.

-Weber, Max
^5  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated byTalcott Parsons,1930).