Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
