Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

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

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

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

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