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.

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

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

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.

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.

The perennial gale of creative destruction