...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power, or deadlock and stoppage, usually injuring outside people more than the immediate parties to the dispute.

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

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.

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.

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