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- Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over…
- The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to…
- No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
- It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it…
- Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,…
- These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy…
- Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
- Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people…
- Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large…
- Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained…
- All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
- The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks…
- The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to…
- [The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their…
- Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing…
- No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.
- If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be…
- Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.
- Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
- Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they…
- Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in…
- Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a…
- Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
- Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
- Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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