The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

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.

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.