“In economics the majority is always wrong.”
“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
“We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.”
“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”
“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”
“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”
“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.”
“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
“One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.”
“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
“There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.”
“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”
“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”
“People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.”
“There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”
“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”
“The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.”
“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
“In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.”
“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”
“In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.”
“Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.”
“It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.”
“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”
“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.”
“Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.”
“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 down.”
“The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.”