The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
