It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.