Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

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.

Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.