Ben Shapiro Quotes

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

If you aren't talking to your kids about socialism, someone else is. So use car time, dinner time, tax preparation time, and time spent together at your work or small business to teach your child about the virtues of capitalism, the system of government that has lifted more people out of poverty.

Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.

There is no pure free-market economy.

Individualism is to collectivism as capitalism is to socialism

I'm a big free-market individual.

Here's the American situation - we have moved from a culture of independence to a culture of dependence. We have moved from capitalism into the direction of socialism. We have moved from being a beacon of strength internationally to a position of weakness.

There are no free financial markets in America or, for that matter, anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind.

You've got to have free markets with limited government, with the proper amount of regulation where you don't jam entrepreneurship.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

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

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

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.

Americans have learned to trust free markets. Republican or Democrat, we believe the unimpeded exchange of goods and services will yield better solutions than five-year plans set by even the most well-meaning public servants.