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• It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Men, Often Is, Perspective

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.76, Routledge

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• Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Optimistic, Vision, Investing

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• The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Intellectual, Climate, Investing

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• Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Genius, Facts, Originality

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.21, Routledge

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• Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

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  Social Unrest, Civilization, Logic

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.146, Routledge

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• I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it is a difference in people's lives.

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  Book, Differences, People

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• The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

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  Soul, Shapes, Socialism

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.220, Routledge

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• In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

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  Evil, Judging, Important

  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy ch. 1 (1942)

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• 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.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Freedom, Democracy, Trials

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• The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is disapproved of not only intellectually but also morally. There cannot be any excuse for it once the Message has been revealed.

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  Religious, Attitude, Errors

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.5, Routledge

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• The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.

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  Girl, Queens, Achievement

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.67, Routledge

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• The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written in its fiscal history, stripped of all phrases. He who knows how to listen to its message here discerns the thunder of world history more clearly than anywhere else.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  People, Phrases, World

  "The Crisis of the Tax State" (1918)

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• Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Common Sense, Innovation, Problem

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• Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Mind, Marxism, Products

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2003). “Ten Great Economists”, p.6, Routledge

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• Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Thinking, Capitalism

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.61, Routledge

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• The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Mind, Gold, Modern

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• The perennial gale of creative destruction

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  Creative, Gale, Economics

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.37, Transaction Publishers

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• Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

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  Judging, Pockets, Defense

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.144, Routledge

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• It is, after all, only common sense to realize that, but for the fact that economic life is a process of incessant internal change, the business cycle, as we know it, would not exist.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Business, Common Sense, Facts

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• Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

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  Decomposition, Form, Inevitable

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.410, Routledge

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• Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

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  Democracy, Obstacles, Rebellious

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.206, Routledge

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• Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

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  Gentleman, Cold, Douches

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• It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

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  Generations, Looks, Inferiority

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.196, Routledge

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• The trouble with Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia.

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  Russia, Trouble, Socialist

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.404, Routledge

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• Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple a that.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  War, Simple, Despair

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.51, Routledge

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