No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

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

Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.