[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

Life is about living, and I intend to live it to the fullest, don’t you?

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

One thing I've learned about the Marvel universe is that it's a little bit like God... if you want to make him laugh, just make a plan.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.