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.Thomas Sowell
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I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
Jack Kemp -
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 -
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
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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 -
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.
Olympia Snowe -
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 -
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.
Aloe Blacc
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I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.
Henry Paulson -
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.
Ben Nicholson -
Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
Marianne Williamson -
Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
Faith Popcorn -
It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
Jim Moran -
When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
Bill O'Brien
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Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.
Willem Dafoe -
I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
Rainn Wilson -
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.
Bill Willingham -
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
Tony Gilroy -
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.
Thomas Sowell