Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.

The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a hoary superstition that democratically elected governments invariably function as instruments of the collective will.A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.