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.

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

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.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.