New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

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.

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

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

Reality is never a golden age.