The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

The spirit should never grow old.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation.

If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.