Status quo Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“It was not an easy thing, for to name something established dominion over it. As with an infant, it shaped and moulded with the…

— Eliza Granville

“There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.”

— Lance Conrad

“It said something about the ability of the free marketplace to mold people’s behavior into a socially acceptable pattern. For this was capitalism at…

— Michael Lewis

“Ideology is essentially a matter of meaning; but the condition of advanced capitalism, some would suggest, is one of pervasive non-meaning. The sway of…

— Terry Eagleton

“Capitalism is not a synonym for free markets.”

— Richard A. Posner

“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. It indicates that the system has ceased to…

— Terry Eagleton

“Consumers are not loyal to cheap commodities. They crave the unique, the remarkable, and the human.”

— Seth Godin

I begin with the renaming of the system. It used to be capitalism. But that evokes [Karl] Marx and [John] Rockefeller. So now we…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“If I were asked to name the deadliest subversive force within capitalism--the single greatest source of its waning morality--I should without hesitation name advertising.…

— Robert L. Hellbroner

“People are cast in the underclass because they are seen as totally useless; as a nuisance pure and simple, something the rest of us…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“The names called privative, therefore, connote two things; the absence of certain attributes, and the presence of others, from which the presence also of…

— John Stuart Mill

“Labeling becomes impossible when we are invested enough in the dignity of other people to be implicated as an accomplice in their humanity.”

— Morgan Guyton