“If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.” IfsIndividualJusticeRightsGenerationsSecuritySucceedConceptsCapitalismGuaranteesEnterpriseNational SecuritySovereigntyGuarantees ThatFree EnterpriseIndividual Rights Author:George Nethercutt
“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.” PersonsRealityGovernmentFormPoorRichModernSecurityCapitalismPropertyInstinctInjusticeAncientCriminalsCorporationsSufficientOrganizedDefencePredatory Author:Adam Smith
“The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to take account of such contextual variables as wartime, security threats, and the societal balance between entrepreneurial and working classes.” HumansQualityClassRightsSecurityBalanceCapitalismAccountsThreatDemocraticHuman RightsWorking ClassFree MarketEntrepreneurialVariablesWartimeIncompatibilityFree Market Capitalism Author:Richard A. Falk
“The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.” LooksSocialSecurityExampleMovementCapitalismWeightRussiaEnormousAlternativesConformityDestroyingIdeologicalSocial Movements Author:David Graeber
“Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence.” TodayGreaterViolenceImpossibleSecurityCapitalismInequalityExclusion Book:The Joy of the Gospel Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.” GovernmentHoursPayEconomySecurityBenefitsCapitalismAreasThese DaysEmployeeThriveFewerBetter OffTime OffGovernment Employees Author:Mortimer Zuckerman
“Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American.” ThinkingNeedsMadeCharacterGamesChanceGenerationsMysteryStreetsSecurityTaughtWallUniqueOrdinaryCapitalismInvestingDisappearEnterpriseUrgesLogicalCapitalistMonopolyTangibleUncommonAmerican LifeTokensChroniclesBuffettMain StreetAmerican Capitalism Book:Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist Source: Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist