We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.