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Capitalism
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If Karl, instead of writing about capital,
had made a lot of it. . .it would have been much better.
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-Karl Marx' Mother
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Under capitalism man exploits man; under
socialism the reverse is true.
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-Polish Proverb
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*The economic benefits which
the whole society, including the poor, does receive from capitalism come
about strictly as secondary consequences, (which is the only way
any social result can come about), not as primary goals. The
primary goal which makes the system work is the personal, private, individual
profit motive. When that motive is declared to be immoral, the whole system
becomes immoral, and the motor of the system stops dead.
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to Leonard Read (founder of the Foundation for
Economic Education), February 28,1946
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 6, "The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged Years
(1945-1959)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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*If you ask me to name the
proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose- because it contains all
the others- the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to
make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before;
men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity- to be seized, begged,
inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first
to understand that wealth has to be created.
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-Francisco D'Anconia, a hero in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Pt. Two, "Either-Or", Ch. II, "The Aristocracy of Pull"
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*Contrary to the vulgar
belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we
now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the
world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts
and benefits ever achieved on earth.
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to Archibald Ogden (her editor for The
Fountainhead, and later friend), August 16, 1943
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 6, "The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged Years
(1945-1959)"
Chapter 2, "We The Living to The Fountainhead (1937-1943)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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