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“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”

Economy Virtue Capitalism Roots

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”

Capitalism Murder Tyranny Plus Tyrants Fascism

Book:Presidential Agent

Source: Presidential Agent

“The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.”

Liberty Possibility Capitalism Ideology Expansion Connoisseur

Book:Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

“Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.”

Knows Race Economy Color Capitalism Green Gender Libertarian Ethnicity Subservient Race Ethnicity Race And Ethnicity

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.”

Class Capitalism Socialism Eugenics Lower Class

Author:Oswald Spengler

“Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.”

Capitalism Mediums Mistrust

Author:James Surowiecki

“Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.”

People Self Capitalism Corruption Reform Legacy Euphemism

Author:James Surowiecki

“The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.”

Challenges Environment Capitalism Fraud American Capitalism

Author:James Surowiecki

“Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.”

Thinking Way Want Company Capitalism Sells Critics Consumers Controlled Lowest

Author:James Surowiecki

“Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.”

Real Self Problem Would Be Running America Lines Company Models Capitalism Moved Managers Corporations Pockets Owners Stakes Ownership Dilemma American Capitalism

Author:James Surowiecki

“It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.”

Values Interesting Party Company Situation Class Failing Movement Capitalism Financial Tea Capitalist Free Market Really Interesting Tea Party Restoring Tea Party Movement

Author:Matt Taibbi

“The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.”

Giving Shows Culture Courses Stuff Moral Violence Capitalism Concerned Crisis Greed Financial Ideology Supposed To Be Nightmare Angle Giving In Futuristic Foreclosure

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.”

People Mistake Capitalism Harm Adventurer

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“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.”

Today Type Capitalism Socialism Transfers Bureaucrats Cronies

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.”

Thinking Turns Capitalism Economics Extremes Communism Mechanism Feedback

Author:Serj Tankian

“Capitalism unchecked is not a democratic system.”

Capitalism Democratic

Author:Serj Tankian

“If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.”

Ifs Company Type Capitalism Competition Fishes Giants Zero Regulation Monopoly

Author:Serj Tankian

“New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.”

Ifs Feels Believe Art Wanted Suffering Culture Force New York Capitalism Centre Conservatism American Culture

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.”

Wells Mean Problem Bigs Planets Capitalism Sells Selling Buying Big Problems Buying And Selling Selling Things

Author:Alice Walker

“I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.”

People Believe I Believe Streets Wall Capitalism I Believe In Humanitarian Good People

Author:Andrew Young

“Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?”

People Humans Has Beens Stills Levels Planets Capitalism Profit Engagement Good Change

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.”

World Humans Kind Has Beens Human Beings Capitalism Command Uncomfortable Interpretation Robots

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.”

Wells Serious Capitalism Tendencies Peasants

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.”

Money Christianity Hell Capitalism Capitalist Bankruptcy Good Christian Insolvency

Author:Frank Borman

“L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.”

Self Easy Century Self Love Capitalism Available Credit Cards Narcissism Worth It 21st Century Slogans Indulgence Credit Card Effortless

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.”

Real Capitalism Strain Hybrid

Book:The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future

Source: The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future

“Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.”

People Way Understanding Simple Technology Car Drug Capitalism Rewards Creator Valuable Firm Makers Imaginative Good Food Providers Valuable Things

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.”

Knows Years Company Technology Hundred Capitalism Ownership Arrangements Joints Entry Crossroads Liability Cooperatives Bookkeeping

Author:Howard Rheingold

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”

Should Rich Capitalism Economics Proportion Expenses Taxation Revenue Unreasonable Wealth Of Nations Progressive Taxation

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.”

“In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.”

People Needs Has Beens Force Theory Capitalism Claims Fundamentals Profit Driven Alternatives Communist Capitalist Regimes Brutality Marxist Marxist Theory

Author:Cornel West

“The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.”

Ends Hands Government Fall Democracy Revolution Capitalism Institutions Defeat American Revolution Lending Incorporation

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”

People Men Needs Form Danger Capitalism Destruction Instruments Consumers Corporate Ties Devices Engines Commodity Consuming Possessing Gadgets Nature Of Man

Book:An Essay on Liberation

Source: An Essay on Liberation

“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.”

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.”

Men World Today Desire Force Freedom Powerful Liberty Eternal Capitalism Independent Communism Bombs Most Powerful World Today Missiles

Author:John F. Kennedy

“You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.”

World Business Company Fronts Capitalism Asking Permission Courtesy Wall And Piece

Book:Banksy: wall and piece

Source: Banksy: wall and piece

“The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.”

Real Culture Reading Education Struggle Diversity Capitalism Social Justice West East Communism Propaganda Literacy East And West Capitalism And Communism

Author:Martin Buber

“There’s Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there’s Feminism and Hedonism, and there’s Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.”

Thinking Mean Feminism Capitalism Socialism Communism Catholicism Narcissism Consumerism Hedonism

Author:Tony Hoagland

“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).”

Thinking Way Feels Mind Heart War Feelings Winning Lines Psychology Conditions Battle Capitalism Economics Bottom Conviction Fundamentalism Heart And Mind Bottom Line

Author:James Hillman

“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.”

Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

“That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that's the source of our descent, and it doesn't start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.”

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today.”

People Government Today Form Capitalism Insane Drunk Sane Sober Forms Of Government

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.”

Capitalism Communism Survived

Author:Charles Bukowski

“What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.”

Has Beens Moving Law Three Capitalism Crisis Decades Location Shifting Frontiers

Book:The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

“Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.”

Matter Done Moral Capitalism Greed Factors Motivated Cash Commerce

Author:Jasper Fforde

“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.”

Facts Evil Politics Winning Liberty Moral Principles Capitalism Hatred Spread Compromise Symptoms Vacuums Default Basic Principles No Compromise Moral Failure

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.”

“I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it”

Thinking Feels Helping Spiritual Capitalism Christmas Holiday Christmas Holiday Commercialism

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.”

Giving Humans Art Feelings Care Fall Difficult Love Is Effort Activity Capitalism Spontaneous Human Activity

Author:Erich Fromm