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Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.
Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done.
The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that way.
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
The U.S. is not pure capitalism. In fact, there's no place for pure capitalism, unregulated capitalism. We have a regulated system.
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
The ultimate credo of capitalism is to exploit people. It's not like this is just an incidental problem; it's inherent in the system.
If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from capitalism in a sense.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will
There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.
The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
I think it's important for us not just to edit the culture that capitalism creates but to create the material basis for a culture that we want.
I always loved retail. I love the ideas behind it. I think small-business retail is one of the areas where capitalism works so wonderfully well.
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
The argument that capitalism was dependent on slavery is, of course, not new. In 1944, Eric Williams, in 'Capitalism and Slavery,' made the case.
What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.
Modern capitalism is based on a myth: that thriving private entrepreneurs generate wealth through their own hard work, innovation and get-up-and-go.
When you get down to the meat and potatoes of genuine capitalism, it is cutthroat, vicious competition, and the consumer always benefits in the end.
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin.
I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.
Nations that use commodity capitalism as a stepping-stone to a mixed economy based on commodity/intellectual capitalism will most likely become rich.
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman.
There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.
Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work.
A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.