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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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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
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Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.
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Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
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In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.
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It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
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Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.
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Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.
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I think that so-called capitalism and trade is a very important element in giving people opportunity.
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The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.
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Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.
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No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman.
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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.
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We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.
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