14 ordspråk av Joseph A. Schumpeter
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
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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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Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political -- legislative and administrative -- decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
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Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
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Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
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For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
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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.
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Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.
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Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
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The ballot is stronger than bullets.
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The ballot is stronger than bullets.
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The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily — and perhaps most tellingly — described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.
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The question that is so clearly in many potential parents' minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'
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To the believer [Marxism] presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions . . .
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