Martha MacCallum Quotes

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.

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

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

A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.

Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.

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.

Don't talk to me about socialism. What we have, we hold.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

But I do have one real problem with socialism: I like money.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

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.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

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.

If experts were usually right, socialism would prevail.

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.

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

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

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.

I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.

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.