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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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- Nov 07, 2020
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument that capitalism was dependent on slavery is, of course, not new. In 1944, Eric Williams, in 'Capitalism and Slavery,' made the case.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaving the E.U. is only the first phase of the Brexiter agenda to shake us free of the laws, rules and rights that many see as a constraint on the implementation of their frighteningly rightwing vision of Darwinian capitalism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.
- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.
- Financiers
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- Nov 07, 2020
While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.
- Enmity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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- Nov 07, 2020