“For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.” InterestRiskMilitaryDevelopmentResearchCapitalismFlowPaidProfitCorporationsMaskExecutivesStableExploitsPublic MoneyNow And Later Author:C. Wright Mills
“I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.” PeopleMadeBlackGrowthPoorBloodCapitalismPaidFortuneEnormousIndianBlack PeoplePoor PeopleFrontiers Author:Peter Matthiessen
“Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?” WayGivingMeanIdeasReasonUseLevelsGoneAchieveWeaponsCapitalismPaidProductionsLabourImplicationsSurplus Author:David Harvey
“What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?” PeopleIfsKindValuesPovertyMassCapitalismPaidUnemployed Author:Andy Grove
“We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with technology are counter-intuitive to profit, and we have to have a transition to the conceptualist society. The only way to do it fairly is as a social democracy, a radical social democracy, which isn't compromised by neo-liberalism and isn't compromised by the rich, and isn't compromised by hegemonic, authoritarian interests: to have that balance between the government, the private sector, and then the individual citizens again.” PeopleWayEndsGovernmentIndividualSocialInterestAcceptingTechnologyDemocracyRichIndustryBalanceCitizensCapitalismPaidProfitEmploymentRadicalLiberalismTransitionIntuitivePrivate SectorComing To An EndSocial Democracy Author:Irvine Welsh
“You just overwhelm the system with so many dependents and so many middle class benefits having to be paid that the money isn't there. It causes a system-wide collapse, capitalism implodes upon itself, and somebody comes into the breach and restructures the government as a socialist utopian paradise - and the guy's dead serious about it.” GovernmentGuyCausesClassMiddleSeriousBenefitsCapitalismPaidWideParadiseMiddle ClassCollapseSocialistUtopianBreachRestructure Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism is operated by extracting money, not so much directly being paid.” PeopleKnowsSufferingPoorCapitalismPaidLoanMortgage Author:David Graeber
“If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.” IfsGivingShouldBelieveChristianDemocracyCapitalismFairsPaidIncludingEmployeePregnancyCapitalistPieDental Author:Michael Moore
“Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.” MayCasesVirtueCapitalismPaidRewardsRate Author:Kenneth Arrow
“As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state constitutions paid ideological lip service to constraints deriving from religious or natural law doctrines, they reserved to some constitutionally-defined body or person the right to interpret these doctrines.” PersonsSelfMatterStatesBodyLawNaturalReligiousParticularCapitalismConstitutionPaidLipsDoctrineDefinedScopeConstraintsIdeologicalReservedNatural LawLip Service Book:Capistalist Civilisation Source: Capistalist Civilisation