Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

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

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries