#api

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#contrary #destructive #good #humanity #liberal

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#ask #capitalist #capitalist society #freedom #how

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#change #era #ever #feel #hardly

My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly. ↗

— Robert Baldwin

#fat #i #manufacture #organs #powerful

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#escaping #however #individual #market #market economy

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#beings #conditioning #control #denial #forms

I think escapism is really important. ↗

— Jordana Brewster

#i #i think #important #really #think

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces. ↗

— Earl Browder

#back #because #become #behind #capitalist

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#capitalism #garden #getting #plant #unemployment

It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#acting #appears #bailouts #capital #companies