Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.