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.

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

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

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most meaningful types of private property and free contracting disappear from the moral horizon of the people.

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