If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.