Joyce Appleby Quotes
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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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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Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
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Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.
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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.
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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.
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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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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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Stand in your own truth and you will command respect.
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Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
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Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
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We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.
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It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
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American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
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Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.
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Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.
