It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

I do the best with what exists.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

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

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.