All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act.

Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.