Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 10786.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system - they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.
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Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
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Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
A Burst of Light: And Other Essays (2017) -
Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creative, a scrambler, and certainly not to be underestimated.
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Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
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Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it - that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
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Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
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Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
And study help for that which thou lament'st.Two gentlemen of Verona 3, 1. -
Census data influences decisions made from Main Street to Wall Street, in Congress and with the Federal Reserve. Not to mention, the American people who look to, and trust, the data the government releases on our nation's unemployment, state of our economy, and health insurance coverage.
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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
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Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 164 -
Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
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