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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.


Mikhail Gorbachev


#centuries #civilization #existed #invention #market

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.


Juan Goytisolo


#bureaucratic #capitalism #caste #collective #created

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.


Phil Gramm


#earn #fair #hands #head #living

Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.


William Cullen Bryant


#justice #labor #rights #unions #imagination

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.


Eugene Victor Debs


#capitalism #feudalism #inequality #justice #labor

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#gain #internationalism #money #patriotism #money

The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")


Blaise Cendrars


#decapitation #guillotine #perpetual-motion #art

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.


Matt Taibbi


#democracy #elections #government #greed #wall-street

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. The slightest observation, however, might satisfy him, that, in all the ordinary situations of human life, a well-disposed mind may be equally calm, equally cheerful, and equally contented. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.


Adam Smith


#ethics #happiness #equality

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.


Adam Johnson


#capitalism #communism #economics #north-korea #obedience