Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Monetary policy suffers from the unfortunate absence of any occult effect. It has long been clear that economic management...would be greatly facilitated if resort could occasionally be had to witchcraft.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.