The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.

It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Almost every organization... exhibits two faces a smiling face which it turns toward its members and a frowning face which it turns to the world outside.