“Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.” DifficultCapitalismBasesPerseveranceGreedClarityDissatisfactionAmerican Society Book:Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life Source: Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
“Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.” ShouldStillsDifficultSawsEqualCapitalismTasksInsightConstructionIrrationalDifficult Tasks Book:Marx: A Very Short Introduction Source: Marx: A Very Short Introduction
“Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.” PeopleLooksDifficultChallengesForgetMorningBuildingCapitalismOrganizationAccomplishSocialismSalaryDeliverySurveys Author:Ricardo Semler
“This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore. I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.” BelieveCareEarthI BelieveDifficultSupportCreativeTakenEthicsCapitalismGreedRealizationConsiderationReplacedDifficult Times Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“Our Pakistan elites are spoiled by permanent foreign aid and therefore find it difficult to change course. Pakistan needs someone who stands up and says: Fundamentalism is bad, capitalism is good. This region harbors enormous potential. Pakistan could become the hub for the energy that is transported from Central Asia to South Asia. That could change the whole region.” EnergyDifficultCapitalismAidsSpoiled Author:Ahmed Rashid
“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.” GivingHumansArtFeelingsCareFallDifficultLove IsEffortActivityCapitalismSpontaneousHuman Activity Author:Erich Fromm
“It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.” DifficultPayCapitalismPhilanthropyCharitable Author:Felix Dennis
“Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.” IfsKnowsNeedsReasonDoneProblemPassionWishDifficultInterestEconomicIgnoranceSolutionsCapitalismDifficultyInertiaConfrontingEconomic Problems Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.” ThinkingPersonsDifficultTermOrdinaryCapitalismSouthAlternativesRacistLinksSouth AfricaExploitationSocialistOrdinary Person Author:Joe Slovo
“Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.” PeopleThinkingChildrenStatesHomeChristianUsedDifficultHoursForgetModernConceptsCapitalismLaborEightLoyaltySocialismIncarnationOathProhibitionEugenicsChild LaborFood Supply Author:Jonah Goldberg
“You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.” FirstsMeanProblemDifficultWaterTalkingTakenEconomicDangerousIndustryCapitalismDollarsFolksProfitBillionsUnexpectedCaptainsReally MeanSlumsTreadingEconomic ProblemsCaptains Of Industry Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.