"It is not true that democracy will always……" — Joseph A. Schumpeter
"It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy."
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Joseph A. Schumpeter
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47 Quotes by Joseph A. Schumpeter
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For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles…
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Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
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It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and…
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The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process
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The perennial gale of creative destruction
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The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms…
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The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field.…
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The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.
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The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally,…
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Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to…
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This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of…
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The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be…
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