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“Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.”

Blood Capitalism Ideology Commerce Greedy Thirsty

Author:Mason Cooley

“When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.”

Process Common Capitalism Areas Labor Profit Productions Goods Division Mechanism Commerce Pursued Cheaper Specialization Interchange Division Of Labor Handicrafts

Author:Carroll Quigley

“The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism, world of communism - all these worlds are the old story now. Where we think we exploit nature, we exploit people. Market rules, profit rules, money rules. We work for name, fame, power, money, profit. That's the old story.”

People Thinking World Stories Names Fame Capitalism Profit Communism Individualism Commerce Exploits Materialistic Materialistic World

Author:Satish Kumar

“The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism, it's directly through juro-political means.”

Mean Political Differences Capitalism Making Money Commerce Wages Manufacturing Feudalism

Author:David Graeber

“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

“A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.”

People May Spirit Achieve Capitalism Advantage Economics Pursue Possessed Commerce Founders Founding Banking Our Founding Fathers Us Founding Fathers

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.”

Mind Humans War Country Moral Gone Influence Capitalism Trade Human Mind Commerce

Author:Thomas Paine

“It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organizations is destroying economic value and inhibiting the emergence of a new chapter of capitalism aligned with the needs of this new society. The new purpose of commerce is to provide the tools, platforms, and relationships, digital or human, that enable individuals to live the lives they choose.”

People Needs Humans Looks Age Purpose Values Individual Behinds Economic Mass Capitalism Tools Organization Digital Destroying Platforms Chapters Commerce Emergence Chasms Economic Value

Author:Shoshana Zuboff

“For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power of capital. But as national barriers have come down in the name of freer commerce, so has the capacity of governments to manage capitalism in a broad public interest. So the real issue is not "trade" but democratic governance.”

“The ability to free oneself from the common tradition, a sort of liberal enlightenment, seems likely to be the most suitable basis for such a business man’s success. And today that is generally precisely the case. Any relationship between religious beliefs and conduct is generally absent, and where any exists, at least in Germany, it tends to be of the negative sort. The people filled with the spirit of capitalism today tend to be indifferent, if not hostile, to the Church. The thought of the pious boredom of paradise has little attraction for their active natures; religion appears to them as a means of drawing people away from labor in this world. If you ask them what is the meaning of their restless activity, why they are never satisfied with what they have, thus appearing so senseless to any purely worldly view of life, they would perhaps give the answer, if they know any at all: “to provide for my children and grandchildren.” But more often and, since that motive is not peculiar to them, but was just as effective for the traditionalist, more correctly, simply: that business with its continuous work has become a necessary part of their lives. That is in fact the only possible motivation, but it at the same time expresses what is, seen from the viewpoint of personal happiness, so irrational about this sort of life, where a man exists for the sake of his business, instead of the reverse.”

Work Capitalism Liberalism Materialism Commerce

Book:The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism

Source: The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism