I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.