Capitalism Quotes
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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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Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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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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I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Anti-Semitism is really a hatred 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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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
