Noam Chomsky Quotes

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.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

The way to maximize production is to maximize the incentives to production. And the way to do that, as the modern world has discovered, is through the system known as capitalism - the system of private property, free markets, and free enterprise.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

I do believe in the free market.

Capitalism works.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

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.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

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

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

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

Capitalism is that form of private property economy in which innovations are carried out by means of borrowed money.

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

You have to have free enterprise for the many.

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.

I believe in the free enterprise system.

Capitalism is a set of rituals.

I'm a very free market guy.