Capitalism Quotes
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Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political order.
Alejandro Castro Espin
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I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.
Henry Paulson
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In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.
Nouriel Roubini
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Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.
Nicolae Ceausescu
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The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.
Bob Avakian
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As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.
William Francis Buckley
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Nobody ever said that capitalism guarantees profit.
Andrew Zimbalist
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Capitalism is the true virus that has seeped into the mentality and psychosis of every person in this country. it is up to us during this time to heal and revive any sense of human decency and dignity among one another. to care, to love, to fight for someone you do not know.
Aja Monet
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You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
Bill Gates
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American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
Sergei Eisenstein
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That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.
Eula Biss
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What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.
Boots Riley
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Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.
August Spies
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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands.
Evo Morales
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
Bernard Crick
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If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.
Eugen Weber
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Churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.
Georgia Harkness
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Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.
Andi Zeisler
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9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, could watch the cathedral of capitalism at the Trade Center and the heart of its defense at the Pentagon be struck internally, not really across borders, so that borders don't matter anymore.
Benjamin Barber
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In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.
Alejandro Castro Espin
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...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling.
Leon Trotsky
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We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the difference between something that's truly progressive and something that's just trying to get us to buy a product. Capitalism, ultimately, it's not about equality, it's not about social justice.
Andi Zeisler
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The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.
Davis McCaughey