Coffee & Quotes on a Sunday morning......Today's topic: Capitalism

[marmar]

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
- Winston Churchill

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“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”
- George Bernard Shaw

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"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”
- Orson Scott Card

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"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser”
- Karl Marx

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"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
- John Maynard Keynes

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“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate”
- Bertrand Russell

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"Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
- Upton Sinclair

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"The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.”
- Norman O. Brown

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"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class”
- Al Capone

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"Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy."
- David Korten

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"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control."
- Noam Chomsky

[Flubadubya]

1. Keynes has bad grammar...

:(

[marmar]

2. OK, well then that invalidates his existence.....

:P

[Flubadubya]

3. LOL!!

Well, I like what he says, anyway.

I like your little anthology here too. :)

[annabanana]

4. They all seem pretty valid to me. . . . k&r

[SecularMotion]

5. Kick

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