A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.

I do the best with what exists.

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.