Every man has a starting capital in life and it is called worth or self-worth.

o. It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

Hunger justifies the middle classes. — Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché

In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common pr — Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Excerpt from page 113[On Malaysia's Prime Minster's anti-capitalism and anti-globalization policies in September 1997] " — Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree

There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product — Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actually poor and parts tha — Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Arnold Harberger, Milton Friedman & Co. Inc., your modest proposal of partial equilibrium for the general good is not wi — André Gunder Frank, Economic Genocide In Chile: Monetarist Theory Versus Humanity: Two Open Letters To Arnold Harberger And Milton Friedman

I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was born in this Nest of D — Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In some ways this was a hi — Immanuel Wallerstein

the decisive movement toward corporate capitalism began in 1895-1896. — James Livingston

It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. An — Ursula K. Le Guin

$The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex living artifact--is thus fractured, neatly fractured, into two sepa — Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain$

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