This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Oystein Dahle, or Øystein Dahle
Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth.
Capitalism | Truth |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Pain, it is true, transmuted, so to say, by its own fiery heat into anger, loses every appearance of depression and feebleness; the angry man makes a show of energy, as the man in a high fever does of natural heat, while, in fact, all this action of soul is but mere diseased palpitation, distention, and inflammation.
Action | Anger | Appearance | Depression | Energy | Man | Pain | Soul |
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Adversity | Depression | Nothing | Prosperity |
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Atheism | Depression | Nothing | Regret | Religion |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue. Both systems are developing into managerial societies, their inhabitants well fed, well clad, having their wishes satisfied, and not having wishes that cannot be satisfied. Men are increasingly automatons, who make machines which act like men and produce men who act like machines; there reason deteriorates while their intelligence rises, thus creating the dangerous situation of equipping man with the greatest material power without the wisdom to use it.
Alienation | Capitalism | Intelligence | Machines | Man | Men | Power | Reason | Will | Wisdom | Wishes |
Fidel Castro, fully Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Capitalism | Failure | Success | Failure |
When you feel an emotion such as despair or in a depression, that is a low frequency current of energy. It has very little energy. And someone who is in despair or in a depression soaks up energy.
Depression | Despair | Little |
There are only two great economic systems in operation in the world today. If Capitalism in the spirit of Christian love can solve the problem of distribution and bring unemployment to an end, it will find itself spreading and recapturing the nations it has lost to its rival. But if Capitalism is permeated with selfishness it will gradually give way to Communism, Technocracy or some other form of Socialism.
Capitalism | Love | Nations | Selfishness | Spirit | Will | World |
Herbert Hoover, fully Herbert Clark Hoover
You know, the only trouble with capitalism is the capitalists. They’re too damn greedy.
Capitalism | Trouble |
J. E. Buckrose, pseudonymn of Annie Edith Foster Jameson
There is this difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed you are miserable because nothing really matters.
Depression | Nothing | Sorrow | Trouble |
The seeing commit a strange error. They believe that we know the world only through our eyes. For my part, I discovered that the universe consists of pressure, that every object and every living being reveals itself to us at first by a kind of quiet yet unmistakable pressure that indicates its intention and its form. I even experienced the following wonderful fact: A voice, the voice of a person, permits him to appear in a picture. When the voice of a man reaches me, I immediately perceive his figure, his rhythm, and most of his intentions. Even stones are capable of weighing on us from a distance. So are the outlines of distant mountains, and the sudden depression of a lake at the bottom of a valley.
Depression | Intention | Man | Object | Quiet | Universe | World | Following |
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Depression | Nothing |
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.
Confidence | Courage | Depression | Gloom | Individual |
Milton Friedman, fully John Milton Friedman
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton Friedman, fully John Milton Friedman
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
Capitalism | Greed | Organization | Will |
John Kenneth Galbraith, aka "Ken"
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.
Capitalism | Choice | Day | Decision | Enough | Good | Public | World |
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
Capitalism | War |