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

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

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

The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

Situations emerge in the process of creative destruction in which many firms may have to perish that nevertheless would be able to live on vigorously and usefully if they could weather a particular storm.