Jaboukie Young-White Quotes

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

Neither Capitalism nor Socialism can pretend to be an ideology. They are merely methods for dividing ownership and income.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people.

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

A Socialist Government cannot carry on a capitalist system better than the capitalists. The men bred by a capitalist system are men of affairs who understand their business. They are not apprentices.

As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These “humanitarian parts” are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its “antirent and anticapital parts,” means to get rid of the poodle..

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

Capitalism with airbags—the type of capitalism I am a fan of.

… conservatives are ideologically committed to capitalism, and do not object to being guided by market signals, while socialists have had to accept, often unwittingly, that capitalist prosperity is an indispensable condition for social welfare and working-class well-being.

We may forget it, among the glitz of the Christmas lights, but capitalism can be a profoundly moral force.

I don't think capitalism can survive.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.