Capitalism Quotes - Page 6

• I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

  Hugo Chavez

  World, Path, Socialism

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• If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Should Have, Giving, Definitions

  Vladimir Lenin (2010). “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

  Mao Zedong

  Serious, Tendencies, Peasants

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.32, China Books

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• Capitalism is an art form.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Form

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

  Humphrey Bogart

  Baseball, Moving, Kids

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• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

  John Adams

  Nature, Money, Ignorance

  John Adams' Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. August 23, 1787.

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• The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Evil, Age

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.2, VM eBooks

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• Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

  Ernest Mandel

  Luxury, Democracy, Essentials

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Two, Economic Inequality

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cat, Night, Office

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Chaplin is no businessman

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

  Chaplin, Businessman

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• A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

  Will Rogers

  People, Giving, Company

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• Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

  John Berger

  Dream, Culture, Publicity

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• Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

  Christopher Lasch

  Understanding, Conservative, Modern

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• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Eggs, Golden

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171 - 172, 1867.

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• If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

  John Ralston Saul

  Running, Democracy, Natural

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• The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Government, Class, Failing

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1986). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers”

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• In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

  C. L. R. James

  Europe, Lasts, Century

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• It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

  Christopher Lasch

  Law, Support, Wages

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• The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

  Hugo Chavez

  Eugenics, Path, Socialism

  "Bush to Take on Troubles Abroad in Latin America". www.foxnews.com. November 2, 2005.

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• There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Reality, Eugenics

  "SIEMPRE Interviews Castro on Revolution, Future". Interview with Beatriz Pages Rebollar, lanic.utexas.edu. June 4, 1991.

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• Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.

  Ayn Rand

  Ambition, Men, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.21, Penguin

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• Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most privileged group of people in the world, the creditor-rentier class of the First World and their junior partners in the Third.

  Doug Henwood

  Class, People, Groups

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• Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

  Norman Cousins

  Senior, Country, Government

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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