Capitalism Quotes - Page 28

• The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

  Confucius

  Men, Gentleman, Masters

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• Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

  Oswald Spengler

  Path, Outbreaks, Socialist

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.390, Oxford University Press, USA

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• This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.

  Tariq Ali

  Lying, Heart, Order

  Tariq Ali (2011). “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad”, p.75, Verso Books

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• Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

  Thomas Friedman

  People, Facts, World

  Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.52, Macmillan

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• The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

  David Foster Wallace

  World, Disease, Assumption

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• Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Devastation, Today

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Morning, Justice, Brotherhood

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• Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Finals, Imperialism, Stage

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• My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

  Karl Marx

  America, Life Is, Objects

  "The Most Important Documentary On America Ever, Destroying America From Within". beforeitsnews.com. December 28, 2013.

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• [I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

  Adam Johnson

  Dog, Socialism, Communism

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.136, Random House

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• Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Gold, Useless, Ethics

  E.L. Doctorow (2013). “Ragtime, The March, and Homer & Langley: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.59, Random House

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• who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

  Allen Ginsberg

  Arms, Cigarette, Holes

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.13, City Lights Publishers

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• Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.

  Milton Friedman

  Exercise, Men, Hands

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Mean, Men

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• You can't have capitalism without racism.

  Malcolm X

  Racism

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman (May 29, 1964), 1965.

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• In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, People, Political

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.324, Cosimo, Inc.

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• ...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.

  Leon Trotsky

  Doe, Exhaling, Crisis

  Leon Trotsky (1972). “The first 5 years of the Communist International”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently.

  Don DeLillo

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.65, Pan Macmillan

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• It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Impact, America

  Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  African American, Baptists, Socialism

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• For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Business, People, Giving

  "Sample Chapter of The O'Reilly Factor". Excerpt from "The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, & the Completely Ridiculous in American Life", www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2001.

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• The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

  Ayn Rand

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.380, Penguin

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• We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.

  Bill Gates

  Graduation, Business, People

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• We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

  Tony Benn

  Party, Years, Political

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• Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

  Margaret Atwood

  Greed, Promise, Fuel

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