Donald Sassoon Quotes

As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These “humanitarian parts” are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its “antirent and anticapital parts,” means to get rid of the poodle..

The problem is capitalism. The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism.

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

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.

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.

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

What is the difference between Capitalism and Communism? Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the opposite.

If experts were usually right, socialism would prevail.

The people weren't quite ready for a socialist production system.

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

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

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

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

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.

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.

I am against the use of capitalist mechanisms to build socialism.

Our intention is not to replace socialism by some other system, but to reinforce it.

… that veiled sister of communism – legalistic socialism

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

Our system of market capitalism wasn't handed down, in perfect form, on stone tablets. We wrote the rules. We broke them. And we can fix them.

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

There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.

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

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.