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Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.
Fidel Castro1926–2016Speech (26 July 1991)
- Economics
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Castro1926–2016Statement of 1991, during the fall of USSR.
- Economics
The first duty of the revolutionaries is to tell the truth. Fooling the people, promoting illusions, always brings the worst consequences.
Fidel Castro1926–2016Camp Columbia, Havana (Jan. 8th, 1959), Fidel Castro Reader, pp. 133
- Truth & Lies
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Willa Cather1873–1947“Four Letters: Escapism” first published in Commonweal (17 April 1936)
If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead.
Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part II, Chapter LVIn context
- Government
The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations’ wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.
Dick Cheney1941–2025
In our nation’s 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.
Dick Cheney1941–2025Campaign advertisement for Liz Cheney’s re-election (August 2022)
- Presidency
Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Uses of Diversity
- Economics
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (6 April 1918)
The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Illustrated London News (1924)
- Clever Jabs
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936All Things Considered (1908)
- Journalism
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time.
Shirley Chisholm1924–2005Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 104.
- Government
The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (2012), p. 83
- America
Market signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future catastrophe.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism, April 1, 2020
- Business
- Economics