We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

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

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.