Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

Costs merely register competing attractions.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

We have to adapt and overcome, that's all we can do.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

In the times of barbaric wars

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

Always have your own opinion and belief.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!

Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz!