Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic fre...
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essenc...
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must se...
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism imp...
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than...