You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves… — Madeleine Bunting Copy Share Image
“If one tallied all of the losses suffered by victims of robberies, burglaries, larcenies, and motor vehicle thefts combined, the figure wouldn't… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Excerpt from page 113 [On Malaysia's Prime Minster's anti-capitalism and anti-globalization policies in September 1997] "Ah, excuse me, Mahathir, but what planet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The last few weeks had demonstrated that we were literally irreplaceable as workers, but any criminal incident turned the whole community into… — Ray Ventura Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The scientific world, the materialistic world, the world of commerce, the world of business, the world of individualism, the world of capitalism,… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution.… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating. — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries.… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of… — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“We cry out against the feudal barons who did not permit anyone to settle on the land otherwise than on payment of… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with paying taxes; they should be paid in proportion to how rich you are. This idea that you're going… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
“And with the decline of the traditional manufacturing industries in recent years, it's getting worse, not better. As capital becomes more fluid… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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