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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
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The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
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The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
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Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
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A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…
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The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
— Michael Parenti
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Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs…
— Susan Sontag
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive…
— Albert Einstein
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I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their…
— Selwyn Hughes
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Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make…
— Walter Lippmann
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
— Harold Brodkey
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Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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