History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.