#capitalism

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

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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. ↗

— Barney Frank

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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential. ↗

— Barney Frank

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

— Milton Friedman

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

— Thomas Friedman

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I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. ↗

— Bill Gates

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There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. ↗

— Bill Gates

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You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down. ↗

— Bill Gates

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