- Debate
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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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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've heard some things from Pope Francis that are not fully supportive of free enterprise capitalism. That should be a problem from an American perspective.
- Out
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Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.
- Behaviors
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Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.
- Judging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is going to be globalization, but we need to do it under terms - under rules that work as rules work for our domestic economy on the dynamic of capitalism. You need to do trade in the same way.
- Firm Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020