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

There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

Reality is never a golden age.

It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.

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

In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.