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“My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive school?” quote by Ian Rankin — Download Open image

““My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive school?””

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“went to take a look at it. A plaque”

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Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.

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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,…

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

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Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it.

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Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

Mstislav Rostropovich

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There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

Anatoly Chubais

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Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and…

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“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.”

David L. Weimer

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“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists”

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