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“A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.”

People Heart Said Use Values Father Capitalism Asking Notes Lovely Socialism Superiors Golden Communism Relative Jesuit Relative Value

Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.”

Giving May Money Produce Protect Capitalism Tables Workers Golden Eggs Geese Living Wage Golden Eggs

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.”

Capitalism Lays Golden Eggs Occult Offspring Value Of Money Golden Eggs

Book:Capital

Source: Capital

“Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs”

Capitalism Lays Killing Socialism Golden Eggs Golden Eggs

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

Values Ability Money Virtue Capitalism Lays Add Golden Eggs Commodity Occult Offspring Value Of Money Golden Eggs

Author:Karl Marx

“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.”

“In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.”

States Past Found Speak United United States Movement Greatness Glory Capitalism Socialism Golden Socialist

Author:Elena Kagan