Matt Taibbi Quotes

Capitalism works.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

For many, perhaps most, Americans, markets are sacrosanct. Most people in the United States cannot even envision a society that doesn't revolve around an untrammeled market.

Capitalism is a set of rituals.

Capitalism is the engine that has grown economies.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

I do believe in the free market.

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

The land of the capitalists…

Capitalism is economic Darwinism…free enterprise is code for individualistic amorality…the marketplace is the temple of secular humanism.

Capitalism is based on a kind of inherited moral climate.

There has been no country with a democratic political sphere, past or present, whose economy has not been dominated by private ownership and market coordination.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process.

I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply.