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Letter "C" » Capitalism
«This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it»
Author: Al Capone
| About:
America and Americans,
Capitalism,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
Americanism, American System, capitalism, One of Us, seize
«When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman?s gun.»
«The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.»
Author: Norman O. Brown
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
capitalism, dynamics, postponed, postponement
«Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true»
Author: Polish Proverb
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
capitalism, exploited, exploiting, exploits, reverse, reversed, reverses, Reversing, socialism, The Exploited
«The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.»
Author: Ralph B. Perry
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
earned, General Idea, redound, redounds, thesis
«What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!»
Author: Henrik Ibsen
| About:
Business,
Capitalism,
Education,
Generations,
Science,
Society
| Keywords:
bringing, capitalism, inventions, produced, The Works
«The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
capitalist, poorer, richer, unchecked
«What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| About:
Capitalism,
Society
| Keywords:
arrangement, capitalism, greed, set up, social organization, social structure, social system, social systems, structured
«Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.»
Author: Orson Scott Card
(Author)
| About:
Capitalism,
Unemployment
| Keywords:
capitalism, unemployment
«The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Capitalism,
Socialism
| Keywords:
blessings, capitalism, inherent, miseries, sharing, socialism, unequal, unequal to
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