Thomas Sowell Quotes
What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

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I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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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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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.
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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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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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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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Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.
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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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We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
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I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.
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The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
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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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Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
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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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I thought Essence had a lot more points. She seemed more active.
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I'm looking at a tax process that will allow people to keep more of their money because we know what happens when job creators get to keep more of their money than they're - they have the confidence to go out and spend that money to create jobs that in turn create wealth.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.