Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
The ideas by which people ... interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition...
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
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