The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

Integrative power [is] the ultimate power