Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

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.

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it.

Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally!

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

The overwhelming majority of people, including Christians, are materialists. They do not believe in the power of spirit. They believe only in material power.