Quotes with ‘capitalism

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  • Barney Frank Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Camille Paglia 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)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Carly Fiorina Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Fascism is capitalism in decay.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Upton Sinclair Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
    Upton Sinclair
    American writer (1878 - 1968)
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  • Ben Horowitz From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Milton Friedman History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom
    Capitalism and Freedom (1962) Ch. 1
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Henrik Ibsen 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
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Wyndham Lewis In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of ''freedom,'' like a bastard brother of reform.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • C. L. R. James 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.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Barney Frank It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Alain Badiou Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • Alain Badiou Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • John Berger Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the same time publicity is its dream.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Angela Davis Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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