When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!

There's never an end for the sea.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.

Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

It's never long distance between friends.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.