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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.

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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

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Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!

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I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.

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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone

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I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.

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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

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