The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

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.

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.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

Every week I want to learn something new. And every week I want to teach someone something new.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.

Youre shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.