According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

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.

And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.