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

we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.

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.

If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.