Aleksandar Hemon Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Simplicity, Needs, Complicated

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

• There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as practiced in the publishing industry. There need to be grants and government support and a few publishers, mainstream and independent, who are not afraid to challenge American readership. We need to build a network of translators, publishers and readers. We hope that our annual anthology might provide an upsurge in interest for European fiction and then, as we publish it every year, become a habit to many readers.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Independent, Support, Challenges

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these people." I might argue with them and I think that some of them might have misconceptions - that they might be infected by the intellectual laziness that is the foundation of American popular culture, and of capitalism, if you wish. But part of my job as a teacher is to work with that - against that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Teacher, Jobs, Stupid

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

• What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  America, Capitalist, Capitalism

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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