Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

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

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.