- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism Quotes
On an economic system praised and questioned in equal measure.
These quotes examine capitalism as a system that builds and destroys at once, citing how new forms replace older livelihoods and self-sustaining ways of life. One suggests that even its critics underestimate its inventiveness. Continue with Democracy quotes.
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
- Emancipate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important for us not just to edit the culture that capitalism creates but to create the material basis for a culture that we want.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate credo of capitalism is to exploit people. It's not like this is just an incidental problem; it's inherent in the system.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
This idea of 'cool capitalism' is still capitalism. It doesn't matter if Elon Musk quotes Nas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
- Welcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The NBA has prided itself on free expression. Its players and owners have a well-earned reputation for speaking out on social justice in the United States. Sadly, it seems woke capitalism stops at the water's edge.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020