The ballot is stronger than bullets.

The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.

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

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

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.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?