Schumpeter Democracy Quotes

#1. You will fail. At some point. More than once. Guaranteed. Proceed anyway.

Danielle LaPorte

#2. We are stone enemies when the bell rings

Muhammad Ali

#3. Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#4. I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but ... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.

Emmett Shear

#5. The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

#6. It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#7. I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. How could there be a north below a south? Is this what I found confusing?

Don DeLillo

#9. Yes, Tony, you are mine and nobody else's.

Aleatha Romig

#10. I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Tom Petty

#11. You have to know me, to know : me, better!
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Petra Hermans

#12. The best gift a man gives is one which he himself would like to keep.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Voters thereby prove themselves bad and indeed corrupt judges of such issues and often they even prove themselves bad judges of their own long-run interests, for it is only the short-run promise that tells politically and only short-run rationality that asserts itself effectively.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#14. As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist democracy ever was. In any case, that democracy will not mean increased personal freedom.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#15. Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

Aldous Huxley

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

Joseph A. Schumpeter