““For all the ugly vices that capitalism encourages, it's at least interesting, exciting, it offers possiblities. In America, the struggle is at least an individual struggle. And if the individual has strength enough of character, salt enough of wit, the alternatives are thicker than polyesters in a car salesman's closet. In a socialistic system, you're no better or no worse than anybody else.' But that's equality!' Bullshit. Unromantic, unattractive bullshit. Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.””
![“[Capitalism assumed] that from the beginning all men are equal. If that were so everyone would be equipped with the same working power, the same education and, above all, the same economic assets … each person would [then] have only himself to blame if he did not succeed.” quote by Knut Wicksell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5fb/knut-wicksell-147570_capitalism_capitalism-assumed-that-from-the-beginni_1738320.jpg)
![“The only trouble was, I wasn't with a group of my peers. Who are my peers? [...] And there I was with a dismal coven of repentant soaks -- a car salesman who had fallen from the creed of the Kiwanis, an Jewish woman whose family misunderstood her attempts to put them straight on everything, a…” quote by Robertson Davies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/06b/robertson-davies-834_car-salesman_the-only-trouble-was-i-wasn-t-with-a-gro_645686.jpg)
