Capitalism

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CAPITALISM: Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all. (Unknown Source)
CAPITALISM: Capitalism desacralizes nature and makes it a commodity for exploitation and profit. (Unknown Source)
CAPITALISM: The evils of free-market capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. (Unknown Source)
CAPITALISM: Capitalism desacralizes nature and makes it a commodity for exploitation and profit. (Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
CAPITALISM: The evils of free-market capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)
CAPITALISM: The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. (Jawaharal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India as a secular democratic republic who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964)