Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.