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"Be watching out for and be guarding yourselves against greed, because a person's life does not consist of the abundance of his possessions." - Jesus
"Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many." - Adam Smith
"All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind" - Adam Smith
"he is certainly not a good citizen who does not wish to promote, by every means in his power, the welfare of the whole society of his fellow-citizens." - Adam Smith
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. - Veblen
"It was the incarnation of blind and insensate Greed. It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs; it was the Great Butcher--it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh." - Sinclair
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." - Einstein
"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone." - Keynes
"...under capitalism ownership of the means of production is vested with one set of individuals while work is performed by another ... the buying and selling of labour power is the differentia specifica of capitalism." - Sweezy
"People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy." - Galbraith
Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity. - Galbraith
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