Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process

I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.