After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
Terry EagletonTag: inspirational apathy capitalism resistance socialism marxism inevitability
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
Terry EagletonTag: future capitalism marxism anti-capitalism criticisms-of-marxism futures-exchange utopianism
We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.
P.J. O'RourkeTag: capitalism economics socialism redistribution-of-wealth
The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.
Sulak SivaraksaTag: buddhism capitalism economics sociology
It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.
Barry UnsworthTag: money capitalism free-enterprise
The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.
Helen KellerTag: rich capitalism class socialism poor 1911 prescient
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
Seth GodinTag: art capitalism
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
David Foster WallaceTag: capitalism consumerism american-dream solipsism dfw
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
Leo TolstoyTag: work capitalism labor honest anna-karenina leo-tolstoy hierarchy dishonest
We're all prostitutes if you think about it. The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousness. You sell your body or you sell your mind, and the Cartesian mind/body thing is a fallacy anyway, your mind is just your brain, so it amounts to the same thing really.
M. Thomas GammarinoTag: prostitution capitalism mind-body-problem
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