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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.


Mikhail Gorbachev


#centuries #civilization #existed #invention #market

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.


Sidney Hook


#capitalism #guilty #hopes #i #judging

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.


Ursula K. Le Guin


#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

The capitalist mind perceives the world purely in terms of material resources to be used for its benefit, to increase productivity and profit without thought of long term consequence. If there is still a vague and oppressive sense of guilt, of wrongness and imbalance, this gnawing guilt spurs capitalism on to greater acts of consumption, more ... Read moreviolent attempts to subjugate nature, more totalizing efforts to create distractions. To the "rational materialist" mind, death is the end of everything; this thought feeds its rage against nature, which has placed it in this position of despair.


Daniel Pinchbeck


#death

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.


Norman O. Brown


#constantly #dynamics #enjoyment #future #postponed

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.


Jeb Bush


#benefits #capitalism #now #people #positive

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.


Maria Cantwell


#casino #commodities #competition #embrace #markets

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.


Milton Friedman


#clearly #condition #freedom #history #necessary

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.


Thomas Friedman


#capitalism #debate #free-market #historical #over

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.


John Kenneth Galbraith


#capitalism #communism #exploits #just #man






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