Capitalism Quotes - Page 26

• Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

  Michael Moore

  Mean, Guarantees That, Opposites

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• I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Suffering, United States

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• In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

  Michael Moore

  America, Use, Kind

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• My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Two, Google

  "Remarks by the President at a DNC Dinner in Palo Alto, California". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 21, 2010.

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• Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

  Camille Paglia

  Weakness, Aristocracy, World

  "How Capitalism Can Save Art" by Camille Paglia, www.wsj.com. October 05, 2012.

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• It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Hero, Avant Garde

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• Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

  Sarah Palin

  Connections

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• The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

  Rand Paul

  War, Abiding, Lessons

  Rand Paul's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Forida, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• 'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Dirty, Numbers

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• Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

  Brad Pitt

  Epidemics, Greed, Criminals

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• Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

  Dennis Prager

  Selfish, Media, People

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• I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

  Arundhati Roy

  Movement, Communist, Ideologues

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• Having what I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.

  Paul Ryan

  Successful, Growth, Helping

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". Interview with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

  James Surowiecki

  Mistrust, Mediums

  "The Business-Movie Business". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

  James Surowiecki

  Self, People, Reform

  "The Tyrant Tax". www.newyorker.com. March 7, 2011.

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• The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.

  James Surowiecki

  Challenges, Environment, American Capitalism

  "The crowd is smarter than you think". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 14, 2004.

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• Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.

  James Surowiecki

  Thinking, Want, Way

  "Penny-Wise" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. September 27, 2004.

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• Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

  James Surowiecki

  Running, Real, Self

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• It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Class, Interesting

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• The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

  Matt Taibbi

  Giving, Greed, Culture

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• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mistake, People, Harm

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• What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Today, Socialism, Type

  "Chaos Is Good for You". Interview with Linda Geddes, www.slate.com. December 2, 2012.

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• I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, Communism, Economics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.

  Serj Tankian

  Democratic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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