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Capitalism Quotes
CapitalismIncome DistributionPrivate PropertySocialism In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
CapitalismControlLaborRevoltTechnology Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
CapitalismClassDependenceIndividualitySociety In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
CapitalismEconomicsLaborTechnologyWealth Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
CapitalismEconomicsGrowthInvestmentValue Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
CapitalismEconomicsExploitationFinanceLabor Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
CapitalismEconomicsInequalityInnovationSocial Responsibility Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.
CapitalismEconomicsGreedHuman NatureRationality While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
CapitalismGlobal HealthInnovation You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
CapitalismChoiceEconomic SystemsFreedomPolitical Systems Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
CapitalismConsumer CultureEntrepreneurshipMaterialismNational Identity England is a nation of shopkeepers.
CapitalismCorporate ResponsibilityEconomicsGlobalizationIndustry When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don't get angry when a corporation does that; we've all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.
CapitalismEquityInclusionOpportunityProsperity We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
CapitalismDestructionForcePowerSelfInterest Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
CapitalismFortunateLibertyTyrannyUnfortunate Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
CapitalismLand OwnershipSocialism Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
CapitalismEconomicsHealthLabor RightsSociety Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.