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"I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it"
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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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"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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"We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries."
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"Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."
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"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."
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"I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it"
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"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."
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"When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die."
Thought
"Look, there is nothing you can say about this show that I don't already know"
Entertainment
"I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it."
Love
"When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him."
Power
"Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony - the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste."
Ego
"By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!"
Order
"If I have a near - beer, I'm near beer. And if I'm near beer, I'm close to tequila. And if I'm close to tequila, I'm adjacent to cocaine."
Humor
"Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'."
Humor
"If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me."
Wit
"My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them."
Confrontation
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