#capitalism

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Lord Henry Wotton. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#capitalism #material #money #possessions #priorities

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#capitalism

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#be true #been #capitalism #democratic #economy

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalism #chains #class #crush #emancipate

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#education #k-12 #problem #socialism #solution

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#days #democracy #effectively #enough #face

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#been #capitalism #cards #could #credit

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. ↗

— Mike Norton

#buddha #buddha-nature #buddhism #capitalism #communism

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#capitalism #century #clean #comes #family

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#capitalism #change #come #communist #concern