The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.