Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

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.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.