Capitalism Quotes
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I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen
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And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.
Eric Johnston
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What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in their numbers and strength in a unified way. That is exactly what we have to overcome.
Eve Ensler
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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
Richard M. Nixon
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Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.
Judy Collins
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Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.
Eugene V. Debs
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The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
Tony Blair
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Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly.
Gerald Celente
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We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
Bill Gates
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Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.
Carroll Quigley
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It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.
Judith Butler
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In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]
Mikhail Gorbachev
