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"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
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"You know you are capitalism's ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom."
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"The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating way. We feel there is so much in us that has not got an expression in capitalism. You know, capitalism is a machine that recognizes outward financial, external achievement. And most of us carry all kinds of richness which we are unable to translate into that language."
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"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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"The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental."
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"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
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"Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work."
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"The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image."
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"The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society."
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"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."
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"The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together."
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"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."
Politics
"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
Money
"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."
Wisdom
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."
Heart
"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."
Character
"We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect."
Philosophy
"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."
Money
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
People
"There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars."
Love
"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."
Economy
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