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"What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands."
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"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."

"I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism."

"Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself."

"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest."

"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical."

"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism."

"Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines."

"Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers."

"We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that."
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"If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job."

"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."

"What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?"

"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."

"Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy."

"This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process."

"The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too."

"I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this."
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