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Capitalism Quotes - II

Capitalism Quotes - II

1. There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. - Mao Zedong

2. I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. 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! - Henrik Ibsen

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

4. Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with. - Brad Pitt

5. Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism. - Bill Gates

6. If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. - Vladimir Lenin

7. You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down. - Bill Gates

8. Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. - Fidel Castro

9. The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. - Mikhail Gorbachev

10. Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer. - George Bernard Shaw

11. There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. - Bill Gates

12. The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. - Richard Stallman.

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