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“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.”

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Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.”

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Author:Benjamin Graham

“Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.”

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Author:David Harvey

“American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.”

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Author:Kent Hovind

“High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.”

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Author:Linda McQuaig

“The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.”

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Book:Improper behavior

Source: Improper behavior

“Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.”

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Author:Jeremy Grantham

“We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world.”

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Author:Kabir Sehgal

“Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.”

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Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“Are there no American citizens sympathizing with whiteguard emigres who conduct propaganda in favor of capitalism, against the Soviets? Then what does the point involve? The point is not to assist these persons, not to finance their activities. The point is that officials of both countries should not interfere in the internal affairs of the other country.”

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Author:Joseph Stalin

“Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits. Later on, a Henry Ford might introduce an era of intensely production-minded captains of industry, but the Harrimans, Morgans, Fricks, and Rockefellers were far more interested in the exciting manipulation of huge masses of intangible wealth than in the humdrum business of turning out goods.”

“Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.”

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Book:The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls

Source: The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls

“Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.”

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Author:Frank Gaffney

“They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.”

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Author:Sean O'Grady

“I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.”

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Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb