The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

[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.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.