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

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

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

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

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.