Max Lerner Quotes
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.Max Lerner
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
Upton Sinclair -
Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
Cameron Russell -
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
Dan Rather -
What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
Ian McShane -
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
Pat Buchanan
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
Zygmunt Bauman -
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
Pankaj Mishra -
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
Oswald Spengler -
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
Rand Paul -
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.
Dambisa Moyo
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
C. L. R. James -
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.
Gary Hamel -
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card -
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I still hung onto the hope that my broken knight would gallop back into my life and sweep me off my feet.
A. Meredith Walters -
I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.
Henry Paulson
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Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
William Shakespeare -
Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.
C.E. Murphy -
I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.
Angelina Jolie -
I think now it's the money who tells the artist what to do - it's not the artist who tells the money what to do. And things move very fast, which is hard, because sometimes you need more time to be creative. I guess no one has a loud mouth like I did. They don't dare to scream loudly what they think. But you can't take fashion too seriously. The whole thing is about giving the woman who wears your clothes some power, some fun, some service. It's great to make it as art. But first, it's a service for someone.
Thierry Mugler -
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
George Bernard Shaw -
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
Max Lerner