"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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“The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.”
“You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.”
“My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately”
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“Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.”
“Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.”
“We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.”
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“We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.”
“Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.”
“I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.”