A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

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.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

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

Often your face is your autobiography