"To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak."

-- Immanuel Wallerstein

#Privilege Quotes #Merit Quotes #Rewards Quotes

“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.”

Source : Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”
“I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.”
“I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.”
“I was an excellent student before I left school. But I graduated early so that I could work longer hours on '90210.”
“I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.”
“I'm very curious and being childlike is vital in our industry”
“But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.”

Source : Lurlene McDaniel (2009). “Breathless”, p.63, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there I'll just tell a little story about the things that happen in my everyday life. People seem to enjoy them well enough.”

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