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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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- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in 9/11, and capitalism proved completely flawed in 2008.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest hypocrisy on the planet right now is for those who defend capitalism to not be in favor of radical transparency, for all of us to know who owns everything. And that is my militant, radical, moderate, pro-capitalist, pro-Enlightenment, ferocious stand.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
- Emancipate
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- Nov 07, 2020
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy.
- Dividing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the 'bad' crony capitalists from the 'good' innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020