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• Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble.

  John Cusack

  Military, War, Borders

  "Talking With John Cusack". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2008.

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• I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge profit, but nobody gets hurt. And therefore I get a lot of freedom.

  Woody Allen

  Hurt, Lucky, Film

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Religious, Men, Class

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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• To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Effort, Would Be

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise.

  Michael Lewis

  Smart, People, Overwhelmed

  Michael Lewis (2011). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine”, p.258, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

  Sarah Palin

  Needs, Care, Canada

  "Following TP report, Sarah Palin is booted from her scheduled speech at a Canadian hospital fundraiser". thinkprogress.org. December 18, 2009.

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• When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.

  Carroll Quigley

  Division Of Labor, Common, Process

  "The Evolution of Civilizations". Book by Carroll Quigley, Second Edition 1979, Chapter 8, Canaanite and Minooan Civilizations, p. 241, 1961.

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• Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Fighting, Civilization, Names

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• Every product and service is sold on the promise of a better future. The purpose of business is to deliver on the promise, and profit is the reward for doing so.

  Patrick Dixon

  Promise, Purpose, Rewards

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Hard Work, Thinking

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• And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Loss, Government, Long

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.238

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• The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  People, Temptation, Administration

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.487

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• The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.

  Phil Karn

  Creative, Stronger, Revolutionary

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• Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

  Joan Robinson

  Long, Investment, Expanding

  Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”

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• All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Average, Wish, Hazards

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2010). “The Windup Girl”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

  Stephen Young

  Morality, Behavior, Needed

  Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.87, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

  Katy Lederer

  Heart, Tree, Rendering

  Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions

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• Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Men, Long, World

  Immanuel Wallerstein (1979). “The Capitalist World-Economy”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.

  Alex Kozinski

  Fun, Law, Ideas

  "Vanna White V. Samsung Electronics". United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, 989 F.2d 1512, law2.umkc.edu. March 18, 1993.

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• Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.

  Jim Stanford

  Preoccupation, Results, Economist

  "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

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• The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

  Joel Bakan

  Personality, Corporations, Psychopathic

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

  Ba Jin

  Country, Luck, Victory

  "The Cold Nights". Book by Ba Jin, 1947.

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• Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, Oxygen, Breathing

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• I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Years, Long

  "Richard Branson: 'Capitalism has lost its way'' by Graham Snowdon, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise.

  J. C. Ryle

  Morning, Prayer, Sunday

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.146, Editora Dracaena

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