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

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.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

Pain in life is inevitable.

I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.