Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn.

When you have more than you need, make your table longer, not your fence higher.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.