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“One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.”

World Doe Universe Sin Materials Pride Capitalism Gods Will Material World Sin Of Pride

Author:David Brooks

“To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.”

Mind Believe Kind Evil Sin Special Holy Capitalism Russia Credulity

Author:H. L. Mencken

“One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.”

Made Sin Sacrifice Century Capitalism Doctrine Bitter Communism Selfishness Irony Pale 20th Century Accusing Callousness

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.”

Want Needs Giving Feels Stuff Sin Simple Grace Possibility Objects Materials Capitalism Silly Heroic Urgency Civics Silly Stuff

Author:Adam Gopnik

“Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.”

Mind Loss Sin Liberty Behavior Capitalism Libertarian Libertarianism Prudent Bankruptcy

Author:Allan H. Meltzer

“The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.”

Two Ends Lasts Sin Capitalism Army Investment Painful Checks Irony Rivals Magnifying

Book:All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

Source: All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

“Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.”

Mean Sin Capitalism Greed

Author:Edward Abbey

“A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.”

“No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.”

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Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century