Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

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 siren song/called silence

Be responsible. Your abilities ensure that you respond to the responsibilities that you encounter daily.

The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to.

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.