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  • The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

  • A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

    People   Banking   May  
    George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.473
  • Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

    Tyrants   Murder   Plus  
    Upton Sinclair (2016). “Presidential Agent”, p.373, Open Road Media
  • We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing about human nature. If you look at human societies and human interactions, you can find anything. You find selfishness, you find altruism, you find sympathy.

    Source: pennpoliticalreview.org
  • World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

    Crazy   People   Everyday  
  • Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

    "Bush Seeks Free Trade With Latin America". "All Things Considered" with Michele Kelemen, www.npr.org. September 24, 2008.
  • The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.

    Moving   Goal   Secret  
  • We need a big debate in society about how we are going to shape Europe and tame capitalism. A government must provide direction and make concrete proposals. It is one of Angela Merkel's biggest failings that she doesn't do this.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated ... what is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man and from nature.

    Men   Numbers   Needs  
  • Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

  • F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

    Peter L. Berger (1988). “The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty”
  • Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.

    Men   Long   World  
    Immanuel Wallerstein (1979). “The Capitalist World-Economy”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
  • In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.

    Education   Money   Work  
    Phyllis Schlafly (2015). “Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I”, p.60, Creators Publishing
  • The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was shocking to find a parallel history to that - a bunch of Americans with very different priorities. I stumbled on to these people, and then became completely fixated on them. The question that drove me was: how did these reasonable people adopt these extremely unreasonable ideas?

    Source: therumpus.net
  • To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism. Unequal exchange is an ancient practice. What was remarkable about capitalism as a historical system was the way in which this unequal exchange could be hidden; indeed, hidden so well that it is only after five hundred years of the operation of this mechanism that even the avowed opponents of the system have begun to unveil it systematically.

    Party   Order   Years  
  • To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.

    Believe   Russia   Evil  
  • I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

  • It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old society will remain in our country for a long time to come, and so will their class ideology. If this is not sufficiently understood, or is not understood at all, the gravest mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging the struggle in the ideological field will be ignored.

    "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".
  • One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

  • When it gets into these spikes, with shortages and uproar and so forth, people go bananas, but that's capitalism.

  • Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.

    Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great About Christianity”, p.61, Regnery Publishing
  • In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

    Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.286, VM eBooks
  • The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

  • Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

    Future   Past   Humanity  
    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.30, Penguin
  • Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.

    Effort   World   Today  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

  • This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media
  • High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.

    Class   Focus   Favour  
  • The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods

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