{"quotes":[{"text":"You think of killing himon the spotbut discard that thought andleave,down into the urine-stinkingelevator, they have you crucified too, America at work, where they rip out your intestinesand your brain and your will and your spirit. They suck you dry, then throw you away. The capitalist system. The work ethic. The profit motive. The memory of your father’s words,“work hard and you’ll be appreciated.” of course, only if you make much more for them than they payyou.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","profit","work","work-ethic","working-poor"],"id":15869,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.","author":"Kevin D. Williamson","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","education","free-market","freedom","health-care","libertarian","libertarianism"],"id":17216,"author_id":"Kevin+D.+Williamson"},{"text":"The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the rich is ‘Invest!’ The supreme commandment of the rest of us is ‘Buy!’ The capitalist–consumerist ethic is revolutionary in another respect. Most previous ethical systems presented people with a pretty tough deal. They were promised paradise, but only if they cultivated compassion and tolerance, overcame craving and anger, and restrained their selfish interests. This was too tough for most. The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to. Most Christians did not imitate Christ, most Buddhists failed to follow Buddha, and most Confucians would have caused Confucius a temper tantrum. In contrast, most people today successfully live up to the capitalist–consumerist ideal. The new ethic promises paradise on condition that the rich remain greedy and spend their time making more money and that the masses give free reign to their cravings and passions and buy more and more. This is the first religion in history whose followers actually do what they are asked to do. How though do we know that we'll really get paradise in return? We've seen it on television.","author":"Yuval Noah Harari","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","consumerism","inequality","poor","religion","rich"],"id":25126,"author_id":"Yuval+Noah+Harari"},{"text":"Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and security of the general population for corporate gain.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","concerns","corporate","corporate-greed","corporate-profit","corruption","greed","greedy","health","human-life","plutocracy","population","powerful","rich","security","social-system","wealthy","welfare","white-collar","white-collar-crime"],"id":35180,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Every man has a starting capital in life and it is called worth or self-worth.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["capital","capitalist","god","life","man","nature","self-image","self-worth","worth"],"id":54299,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bad","blood","capitalism","capitalist","colonialism","corporations","corporatism","corrupt","corruption","deceit","deception","elections","elite","empire","evil","free","freed","freedom","greedy","human-life","imperialism","liberty","lives","media","money","occupation","people","people-before-profit","politics","power","power-to-the-people","profit","profitable","profits","profits-before-people","society","suzy-kassem","treason","tyranny"],"id":61111,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were commanding, cruel capitalists, and the memory of this so strong, the experience so recent, that we can't quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for hat we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilisations, is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.","author":"Jamaica Kincaid","tags":["anger","antigua","capitalism","capitalist","colonialism","colonized-frustration","decolonization","frustration","indigenous","indigenous-feminism","perserverance","struggle"],"id":84326,"author_id":"Jamaica+Kincaid"},{"text":"The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all obstacles the best it can. Permit these creative know-hows freely to flow. Have faith that free men and women will respond to the Invisible Hand. This faith will be confirmed. I, Pencil, seemingly simple though I am, offer the miracle of my creation as testimony that this is a practical faith, as practical as the sun, the rain, a cedar tree, the good earth.","author":"Leonard Edward Read","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","economics","inspirational","libertarian","politics","profound"],"id":134707,"author_id":"Leonard+Edward+Read"},{"text":"To say that 'the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital', means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["capital","capitalism","capitalist","friedrich-engels","karl-marx","wage-labor","wage-labour","wage-slavery"],"id":148465,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"...Capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond those characteristic of modern economics. That is why this is a history not of economic ideas, but of ideas beyond the capitalist economy.","author":"Jerry Z. Muller","tags":["capitalism","capitalist","economy"],"id":179837,"author_id":"Jerry+Z.+Muller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}