One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. |
One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence. |
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. |
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage |
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage |
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. |
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. |
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. |
Production only fills a void that it has itself created |
Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book. |
Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality. |
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. |
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. |
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness. |
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. |