It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going to knock it out of equilibrium.

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

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

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

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.