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“We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.”

“For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?”

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Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.”

People Needs Capitalism Mood Acquire

Book:The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988

Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988

“In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.”

People Want Facts Next Interest Creating Capitalism Unhappy Acquire Vested Interests

Author:Philip Kotler

“Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.”

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Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.”

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Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.”

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Author:John Berger

“And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?”

World Stills Wealth Powerful Capitalism Deny Acquire Wealthy Free Market

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek