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

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.

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.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things--and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people.

There is always the fear of unknown - racism comes from people when they don't know something, they are strangers to the other side.

Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.

Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish)