Capitalism Quotes - Page 25

• A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Sound, Might

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• Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

  Al Gore

  Creativity, People, Imagination

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• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  Gary Hamel

  Rights, Corporations, Individual

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• Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Law, Our Society, Effects

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• The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.

  Woody Harrelson

  War, Fighting, Government

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• Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Determination, Mean, Equality

  "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich August von Hayek, (Ch. 11), 1944.

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• Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

  James Hillman

  Loss, United States, Different

  "America and the Shift in Ages: An Interview with Jungian James Hillman". Interview With Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

  Jesse Jackson

  Sex, Wall, Mean

  "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Liberty, Foundation

  "Rush: Obama bastardizing Constitution" by David Mark, www.politico.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Utopia

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• I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Years, Magazines

  "Did El Rushbo Make Il Papa TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. December 11, 2013.

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• Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don’t need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Self, Example, Needs

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Running, Reality, People

  Interview with Jeff Sweat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Balance, Fans, Purpose

  Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Powerful, Practice, Two

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• In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Powerful, Attitude, Moving

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• I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Moving, Cuba, Making Money

  "Fat Cats and Shady Deals". www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2002.

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

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Economics, Communist

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• When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Thank God, Trying

  "Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

  Michael Moore

  Evil

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• There's nothing pure about capitalism.

  Michael Moore

  Pure

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• Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

  Michael Moore

  Hard Work, Thinking, Guarantees That

  "Is Michael Moore Pro-Piracy: Illegal Copies of “Capitalism: A Love Story” Inspiring OWS?" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. December 6, 2011.

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• A sane person would think that Wal-Mart would never carry 'Capitalism: A Love Story' because it's simply not in their best interests to inform their customers of their shady past.

  Michael Moore

  Past, Thinking, Stories

  "Why Is Wal-Mart Selling Capitalism: A Love Story (Out Today on DVD)?" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

  Michael Moore

  Tired, Thinking, Democracy

  "DealBook’s Interview With Michael Moore". dealbook.nytimes.com. September 23, 2009.

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• A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

  Michael Moore

  Trust, Taken, Stupidity

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