Quote by Joseph Alois Schumpeter

“At times of social unrest when people begin to look for alternatives it is easy for that vacuum to be filled by those who…

— Neil Ormerod

“The masses often let themselves down and even those at the forefront who are hoisting the flag of the cause that is intended to…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and interest in facts. Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to the kind…

— Aldous Huxley

“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it…

— George Orwell

“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,…

— Erich Fromm

“A society must always aim for balance. It needs intellectuals, it needs warriors, it needs traders, it needs artists, and it needs skilled workers.…

— Amish Tripathi

“We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the…

— Abhijit V. Banerjee

“It was not the businessmen or the industrialists or the workers or the labor unions or the remnants of the feudal aristocracy that began…

— Ayn Rand