Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

You Englishmen, ’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.

How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?

The manger dares us to believe the best is yet to be. And it could all begin today.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.