Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.

The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.