But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat in full view of the audience.

The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.

My mother used to say that sometimes if you turn a tragedy over in your hand, you can see a miracle running through it, like fool's gold in the hardest shard of rock.

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

For every mountain, there is a miracle.

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

No one in college football or the SEC can tackle me by themselves.