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.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
War remains the decisive human failure.
Related Quotes to Explore
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.