Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

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.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.