The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.