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.

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.