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You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.

~David Harsanyi

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There's something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. At the same time, we live in an America where capitalists oppose any government interference with free markets, while in China you have a very controlled, state-planned market where economic growth is better than ours.

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: About America Any Better Capitalism Capitalists China Confusing Controlled Economic Economic Growth Find Free Free Markets Government Growth Interference Live Market Markets Oppose Ours Rush Same Same Time Something Than Time Very Where While You

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Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

~David Korten

Topics: About Among Buying Capital Capitalism Choices Competitive Concentrating Economic Economic Power Equal Everyone Few Free Gets Hands People Power Reasonably Selling Trash Using Very Way Who

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Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

~David Korten

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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

~David Mamet

Topics: Applied Bad Both Both Sides Capitalism Coin Dad Grew Ideas Labour Lawyer Life Management My Own Own Robber Saw Sides Up

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My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.

~David Miliband

Topics: Around Capitalism Childhood Dad Debating Football Me Memories Mornings Mum Profit Remember Saturday Sitting Squeeze Swimming Table Taking Things Those I Remember

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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

~David Remnick

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Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

~Dennis Prager

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Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

~Dick Morris

Topics: Along Antithesis Been Born Capitalism Challenge Debate Democratic Democrats Fight Free-Market Great Lines Now Obama Pick Republicans Socialism Thesis Up

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I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: About American Being Capitalism Christian Devout Enterprise Fascinated Free Free Markets Heritage Institute Intellectually Issues Like Markets Michael Morality Neighbor Philosopher Possible Roots Scholar Theologian Washington Who Without Written

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