War remains the decisive human failure.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.