Capitalism Quote by Norman O. Brown Download Open image “The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.” — Norman O. Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalism Dynamics Economics Enjoyment Time
There's no doubt whatsoever that there's no future in capitalism. It's probably no more than 500 years old, and it's demonstrating over and over… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short memory of… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have seen capitalism… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“I've been impressed by the extent to which one gets sentenced by one's own sentences. One explores certain things in play and then in… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
“The human libido is essentially narcissistic, but it seeks a world to love as it loves itself.” — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
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… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
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… — John Adams Copy Share Image