The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

Writing opens the door to imagination.

I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.

I dont feel like my job is to be beloved.

The love of form is a love of endings.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.