In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.