“The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.” IfsIdeasStatesChurchPayKnownEconomicCapitalismParadigmSponsorsPatronage Author:Paul Schrader
“The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.” MeanPersonsPoliticsChurchEconomyTeachingCapitalismLiberalismOwnershipMarxismJointsCollectivismPrimacy Author:Pope John Paul II
“churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.” HandsReligionChurchMajorsCapitalismInstitutionsBitesRooted Author:Georgia Harkness
“Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.” IfsWisdomRealityFormPoliticalUsedPoliticsCommunityLeadershipChurchJusticeMoneyCommonPolicyHighestEthicsCapitalismStrategyCharityHuman RightsNobleSeparationIdeologyChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateCommon GoodPolitical Power Author:Pope Francis
“The Catholic Church... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same reservations, she now upholds capitalism; but, above all things and forever, she upholds the Catholic Church.” EvilChurchForeverGrowingRevolutionCapitalismAll ThingsCatholicWarningCatholic ChurchReservationsFeudalism Book:Ultramontanism: Roman Catholic Political Machine in Action Source: Ultramontanism: Roman Catholic Political Machine in Action
“Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it now - because racism was created to justify slavery to build the capital for capitalism - and back in the day they respected talent over race. We had an African Pope in the late 5th century, we had an African Emperor of Rome, and early church Fathers were black.” KnowsAgeFatherBlackChurchRaceCenturyTalentLateRacismCapitalismSlaveryGreekJustifyRomePopeEmperorBack In The DayChurch Fathers Author:Immortal Technique
“I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.” ThinkingYearsArtChurchFourHundredCapitalismYears AgoCatholicProductiveCatholic Church Author:Mick Farren
“Now Pope Francis on his overnight flight back to Italy explains how contraception can be justified. This is the pope, the Vicar of Christ, the Catholic Church explaining how contraception could be justified. And then he rips into capitalism and the American immigration policies while at the Mexican border before getting on his plane to go back to Italy.” ChristChurchPolicyCapitalismCatholicImmigrationFlightPlanesBordersPopeJustifiedMexicanExplainingRipCatholic ChurchContraceptionImmigration PolicyVicarsMexican Border Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.” PeopleLongStillsStatesEnoughLeftChurchPoorPartyWatchesStreetsWallNewsCapitalismStandingMovedUnionsEverydayCastsEntertainmentShipsWitnessTriumphCorporatePoor PeopleChurch And StateFashionablePiratePredatorOverboardStanding StillZealotCroniesCouplingSycophantsCrony Capitalism Author:Bill Moyers
“Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.” LooksChristianHumanityChurchMoneyChristianityDemocracySeeingBirthAuthorityCapitalismSocialismRadicalAppealsSomedayBirth ControlChristian Church Author:Margaret Sanger
“Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism - with a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church.” WayMeanStatesReasonValuesChurchLibertyPracticePureCapitalismEconomicsIndividualitySeparationPursuitLaissez FaireLaissez Faire Capitalism Author:Ayn Rand
“I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state and church, which led to peaceful coexistence among different religions...so the same applies to economics. If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, and harmony and justice among men.” IfsMenDifferentStatesGovernmentFormChurchJusticeLibertyEconomyCapitalismEconomicsAbsolutesHarmonyTradeProductionsSeparationPeacefulCooperationCoexistenceLaissez FairePeaceful CoexistenceDifferent Religions Author:Ayn Rand
“Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.” WayHas BeensMatterStatesReasonGovernmentFormEvilChurchEconomySourceSolutionsCapitalismEconomicsTradeProductionsSeparationBehalfInterventionChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateAbolitionLaissez FaireLaissez Faire Capitalism Author:Ayn Rand