We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

Where do you go when you die twice-lest a thousand deaths?

We always hurt the ones we love, darling. You’ll have to tell her you’re sorry. And mean it and give her time. - Grace Trevelyan-Grey to Christian Grey

What we don't know is much more than what we know.

As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

We live to survive our paradoxes.

This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.

His blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

I didn't know I was going to become a designer; I was going to become a successful person, but I really wanted to be free.

Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.