[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Old Woman Nora of Loch LomondTo her three wee Grandaughters one cold night.

If you follow, Practice and Live ‘Ownership’, you have arrived in Life!

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.