Joseph Harder

“Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it required.”
― Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Imperialism and Social Classes

“specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
― Weber Max, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

“Whether he remained here, or found a means to leave, he ought certainly to possess himself of the best possible weapons. By the term Mr. Lecky understood some sort of firearm. The fact that he was totally unacquainted with the use of guns assisted him in the illusion that, given a revolver, he would instantly become formidable. Trusting machines as he did, he regarded a revolver as a small killing machine. He believed that its operation required little more than pointing and pulling a trigger. The revolver would obediently deliver, unerring and fast as light, death to a great distance.”
― James Gould Cozzens, Castaway

“The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.”
― James Gould Cozzens, The Just And The Unjust: A Gripping Crime Mystery – Classic Police Drama in a Small-Town Murder Trial