"Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil."

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Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2003). “Ten Great Economists”, p.77, Routledge

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#Mean Quotes #Progress Quotes #Economic Quotes

“Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.”

Source : James Mill (1821). “The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”, p.8
“My accent depends on whom I'm around.”
“I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.”
“...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul â€” kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.”

Source : Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.22, Lulu.com
“First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.”
“I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down but more powerful idea of what is, or could be photographic.”
“I donâ€™t believe that in our society that we should have guns,”
“A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.”

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