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Making capitalism out of socialism is like making eggs out of an omelet.
-Vadim Bakatin
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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.
-John Berger
Ways of Seeing, ch. 7, 1972
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Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.
-Georges Bernanos
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Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.
-Frank Borman
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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
-Norman O. Brown
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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
-Albert Camus
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And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
-Andrew Carnegie
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Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.
-Noam Chomsky
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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
-Milton Friedman
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What kind of society isn't structured on greed? 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.
-Milton Friedman
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
-Henry George
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Our alternative is either to stick to a moral tradition which we haven
-Friedrich A. Hayek
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The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
-Edward Heath
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Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.
-Eric Hoffer
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Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
-Pete Holiday
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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
Pillars of Society, act 2 character Aune
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
-John Maynard Keynes
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When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.
-Nikita Khrushchev
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The call for free markets would be more successful if it came from more sympathetic people.
-Gerhard Kocher
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.
-Lewis H. Lapham
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
-Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)
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In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform.
-Percy Wynham Lewis
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
-Abraham Lincoln
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