GREAT QUOTES OF JOSEPH ALOIS SCHUMPETER | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS ECONOMISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF SCHUMPETER

“The first thing a man will do for his ideal is lie” - Joseph Schumpeter

“Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.” - Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.” - Joseph Schumpeter

“Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can’t bother about where they’re going.” - Joseph Alois Schumpeter

“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.” - Joseph A. Schumpeter

“This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.” - Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter

“Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it required.” - Joseph Alois Schumpeter

“Please do not think that I am accusing socialists of insincerity or that I wish to hold them up to scorn either as bad democrats or as unprincipled schemers and opportunists. I fully believe, in spite of the childish Machiavellism in which some of their prophets indulge, that fundamentally most of them always have been as sincere in their professions as any other men. Besides, I do not believe in insincerity in social strife, for people always come to think what they want to think and what they incessantly profess. As regards democracy, socialist parties are presumably no more opportunists than are any others; they simply espouse democracy if, as, and when it serves their ideals and interests and not otherwise. Lest readers should be shocked and think so immoral a view worthy only of the most callous of political practitioners, ...” - Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.” - Joseph Alois Schumpeter

“Social structures, types and attitudes are coins that do not readily melt. Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behavior more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process.” - Joseph Alois Schumpeter

“The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.” - Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Nothing should be more obvious than that the business organism cannot function according to design when its most important “parameters of action”—wages, prices, interest—are transferred to the political sphere and there dealt with according to the requirements of the political game or, which sometimes is more serious still, according to the ideas of some planners.” - Joseph Alois Schumpeter

“However, whether favorable or unfavorable, value judgments about capitalist performance are of little interest. For mankind is not free to choose. This is not only because the mass of people are not in a position to compare alternatives rationally and always accept what they are being told. There is a much deeper reason for it. Things economic and social move by their own momentum and the ensuing situations compel individuals and groups to behave in certain ways whatever they may wish to do—not indeed by destroying their freedom of choice but by shaping the choosing mentalities and by narrowing the list of possibilities from which to choose.” - Joseph Alois Schumpeter

“The public mind has by now so thoroughly grown out of humor with it as to make condemnation of capitalism and all its works a foregone conclusion---almost a requirement of the etiquette of discussion.” - Joseph A. Schumpeter

“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

“We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them.” - Joseph A. Schumpeter

GREAT QUOTES OF LUDWIG VON MISES | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS ECONOMISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF LUDWIG VON MISES

“Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.” - Ludwig von Mises

“All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.” - Ludwig von Mises

“Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.” - Ludwig Von Mises

“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.” - Ludwig von Mises

“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization” - Ludwig von Mises

“Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.” - Ludwig Von Mises

“The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.” - Ludwig Von Mises

“Every socialist is a disguised dictator.” - Ludwig von Mises

“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.” - Ludwig von Mises

“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.” - Ludwig von Mises

GREAT QUOTES OF ISABEL PATERSON | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS ECONOMISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF ISABEL PATERSON

“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.” - Isabel Paterson

“Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.” - Isabel Paterson

“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.” - Isabel Paterson

“Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.” - Isabel Paterson

“The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.” - Isabel Paterson

“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state...The most vindictive resentment may be expected from the pedagogic profession for any suggestion that they should be dislodged from their dictatorial position; it will be expressed mainly in epithets, such as "reactionary," at the mildest. Nevertheless, the question to put to any teacher moved to such indignation is: Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you to pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?” - Isabel Paterson

“Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.” - Isabel Paterson

“If everyone were invariably honest, able, wise, and kind, there should be no occasion for government. Everyone would readily understand what is desirable and what is possible in given circumstances, all would concur upon the best means toward their purpose and for equitable participation in the ensuing benefits, and would act without compulsion or default. The maximum production was certainly obtained from such voluntary action arising from personal initiative. But since human beings will sometimes lie, shirk, break promises, fail to improve their faculties, act imprudently, seize by violence the goods of others, and even kill one another in anger or greed, government might be defined as the police organization. In that case, it must be described as a necessary evil. It would have no existence as a separate entity, and no intrinsic authority; it could not be justly empowered to act excepting as individuals infringed one another's rights, when it should enforce prescribed penalties. Generally, it would stand in the relation of a witness to contract, holding a forfeit for the parties. As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.” - Isabel Paterson

“The objection to profit is as if a bystander, observing the planter digging his crop, should say: "You put in only one potato and you are taking out a dozen. You must have taken them away from someone else; those extra potatoes cannot be yours by right." If profit is denounced, it must be assumed that running at a loss is admirable. On the contrary, that is what requires justification. Profit is self-justifying.” - Isabel Paterson

“Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.” - Isabel Paterson

“In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system. Conversely, in arguing for collectivism, he always assumes that there will be as many jobs as there are workers. The government will make the jobs.” - Isabel Paterson

GREAT QUOTES OF PAUL GAUGUIN

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF PAUL GAUGUIN

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” - Paul Gauguin

“Art is either revolution or plagiarism” - Paul Gauguin

“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.” - Paul Gauguin

“We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.” - Paul Gauguin

“...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.” - Paul Gauguin

“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.” - Paul Gauguin

“It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.” - Paul Gauguin

“How do you see this tree? Is it green?

...Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible.” - Paul Gauguin

“Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.” - Paul Gauguin

“All the joys animal and human of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.” - Paul Gauguin,

GREAT QUOTES OF EDGAR DEGAS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF EDGAR DEGAS

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” - Edgar Degas

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.” - Edgar Degas

“I want to be famous but unknown!” - Edgar Degas

“And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.” - Edgar Degas

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people” - Edgar Degas

“Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.” - Edgar Degas

“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.” - Edgar Degas

“So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.” - Edgar Degas

“We were created to look at one another, weren't we” - Edgar Degas

“C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).” - Edgar Degas

“Success! Success! The enemy of progress!” - Edgar Degas

GREAT QUOTES OF SALVODAR DALI

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF SALVODAR DALI

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” - Salvador Dali

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.” - Salvador Dali

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” - Salvador Dali

“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?” - Salvador Dalí

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.” - Salvador Dali

“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.” - Salvador Dalí

“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.” - Salvador Dali

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” - Salvador Dali

“Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.

However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"

Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.” - Salvador Dalí

“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!” - Salvador Dali

“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.” - Salvador Dalí

GREAT QUOTES OF PABLO PICASSO

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF PABLO PICASSO

“Everything you can imagine is real.” - Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” - Pablo Picasso

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” - Pablo Picasso

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” - Pablo Picasso

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ” - Pablo Picasso

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - Pablo Picasso

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone” - Pablo Picasso

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” - Pablo Picasso

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” - Pablo Picasso

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun” - Pablo Picasso