"Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter……" — John Derbyshire
"Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature."
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John Derbyshire
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14 Quotes by John Derbyshire
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Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
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I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of…
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Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.
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I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant…
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Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
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Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.
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Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.
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Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!
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Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
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Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that…
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I tell you, with complex numbers you can do anything.
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