When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.
When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own.
I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.
Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.
People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.
Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.