Niall Ferguson Quotes

Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

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.

Mrs Thatcher was a mirror-image Marxist. Everything that Marx abhorred she thought was good

Pat Buchanan ... could give Karl Marx lessons in class warfare.

When twenty years ago a vague terror went over the earth and the word socialism began to be heard, I thought and still think that fear was translated into doctrines that had no proper place in the Constitution or the common law.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

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

Social reformers who wish to improve capitalism in order to more easily to preserve it oppose … this formidable diffusion of Marx's thought among the masses.

I don't think capitalism can survive.

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and China had their bloody revolutions and even while they were Communist, they had the same idea about generating wealth - tear it out of the bowels of the earth. And now they have come out with the same idea in the end... you know, capitalism. But capitalism will fail, too.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

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.

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.