The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

The sacred words are sword of life.

Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

'Cause we are each other's angels And we meet when it is time We keep each other going And we show each other signs

There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation.

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Jesus doesn't care if you feel guilty. Jesus wants you to change.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.