Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will
do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone

                                                       -keynes

     The market is not an invention of capitalism.  It has existed for
centuries.  It is an invention of civilization.

                                                  Mikhail Gorbachev (June 8,
1990)

     A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
                                             Samual Butler (1885)

     The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate
at a profit.
                                             Samuel Gompers (1908)

     It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker,
that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.  
We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never
talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

                                             Adam Smith