We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

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

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

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

The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism