There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.

If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

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