C Quotes
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“Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?”
“Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.”
“Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.”
“Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.”
“Capital punishment, that thing scares me, it really does. I was talking to my friend about the electric chair, and he starts freakin' out. He's like 'the electric chair? That's too good for these people. That's too good for them'. Alright, how do we make the electric chair worse? How about this? They have to pedal a car battery to their own head. Is that ok? Is that enough, Mr. Hitler?”
“Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.”
“Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.”
“Capital recapturing the system of the psychotherapy industry ensures that the main goal of client improvement for client improvement sake is replaced by goals that are more marketable, such as fewer bad feelings or a better-behaved child for your parental dollar investment. Progress that isn’t immediately understood by a lay person may be tossed aside as unimportant, but these complex concepts simply are not unimportant.”
Source: Žižek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy
“Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.”
“Capital sees politicians as a means to their ends, just another employee, or a potential bankable asset. And politicians, whoring themselves to the highest bidder, write their laws for a seat at the table. Some politicians aren’t directly on the take but, it’s hard to imagine, that, while on the public’s dime, they’re at least not on a job interview. Capital rewards their loyal underlings with no-show jobs for their idiot relations.”
Source: Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020
“Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“Capital T truth is dead.”
“Capital takes away the autonomy of our time and makes it impossible for large segments of the population to leave the realm of necessity behind. In fact, the largest segment of the population is struggling hard to get access to basic necessities, which means that they have a very restricted capacity and time for freedom of expression.”
Source: The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
“Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.”
“Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated.
Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas.
They, too, will go where they’re welcome and stay where they are well treated.”
“Capital withdrawals by investors can torpedo investment strategies of money managers at the worst possible time.”
“Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.”
Source: Contributions to Modern Economics
“Capital, and the question of who owns it and therefore reaps the benefit of its productiveness, is an extremely important issue that is complementary to the issue of full employment... I see these as twin pillars of our economy: Full employment of our labor resources and widespread ownership of our capital resources. Such twin pillars would go a long way in providing a firm underlying support for future economic growth that would be equitably shared.”
“Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.”
Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh
“Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.”
Source: Nations and Nationalism
“Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources. Capital, in corporate hands, can move anywhere and thus demand and get the utmost in concessions and privileges as well as the freedom to operate in the interest of ever-increasing wealth and assets.”
“Capitalism, a deep-rooted belief in religion, and engrained superstition: that is the Persian mindset’s holy trinity today.”
Source: Tajrish
“Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.”
“Capitalism and communism were two sides of the same coin of control. Control the capital and you control the economy. Control the economy and you can control the people.”
Source: Swarm
“Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.”
“Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.”
“Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.”
“Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.”
“Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.”
Source: Sixty stories
“Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private profit as supreme ruler of social behavior.”
“Capitalism, as Marx observed—with surprising admiration for its dynamism—never promised stability, and it’s been a generation since blue-chip companies like IBM offered their white-collar workers a job for life. As the best-seller Who Moved My Cheese advises, dislocated professionals must learn to adapt to new flavors of cheese as the old ones are taken away. But when skilled and experienced people routinely find their skills unwanted and their experience discounted, then something has happened that cuts deep into the very social contract that holds us together.”
Source: Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.”
“Capitalism begins with giving.”
Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
“Capitalism believes in collectivism for itself and individualism for its enemies.”
Source: The Superstition of Divorce
“Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.”
“Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.”
“Capitalism brings it wealth that is true, but it also brings with it corruption, scarcity and inequality.”
“Capitalism can be alright, I mean Karl Marx didn't live to see what Roosevelt did with that Depression. He pulled everybody out of that Depression and everybody hated Franklin Roosevelt. He got into office four times. One after the other, with everybody saying, he can't get in again. Everybody voted for Roosevelt four times and he did a hell of a lot.”
“Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.”
“Capitalism can no longer be viewed as a soaring success. And yet, the left wing and right wing are fighting, only accelerating their collective downfall.”
“Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”
“Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.”
“Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.”
“Capitalism celebrates the freedom of disparity, Communism propagandises the equality of misery.”
“Capitalism created the possibility of employment.”
“Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.”
“Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Capitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market.”
“Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of "capital." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship to each other is that of form to content.”