The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.