"This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let……" — Joseph A. Schumpeter
"This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it."
Related Quotes
- If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then… — Mark McKinnon
- Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us… — Muhammad Yunus
- Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace. — Serj Tankian
- We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way. — George Bernard Shaw
- A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new… — John L. Phillips
- Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but… — Marilynne Robinson
- Humanity will be extinct soon. We glorify war and murder, and we love hating each other. That is our demise,… — Jeremy Limn
- Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet… — P.D. James
- Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat,… — James Joyce
- You can't leave civilization behind entirely. — Dirk Benedict
47 Quotes by Joseph A. Schumpeter
Joseph A. Schumpeter has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles…
- Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
- It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and…
- The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process
- The perennial gale of creative destruction
- The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms…
- It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of…
- The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field.…
- The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.
- The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally,…
- Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to…
- The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be…
More Away However Quotes
This quote is filed under Away However Quotes, one of 2 quotes in that category. Here are a few more: