The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.