Society and the World

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

There is a general prejudice to the effect that lawyers are more honorable then politicians but less honorable than prostitutes. That is an exaggeration.

There is a general prejudice to the effect that lawyers are more honorable then politicians but less honorable than prostitutes. That is an exaggeration.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

One can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but science makes God unnecessary.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Economics is the painful elaboration of the obvious.

Economics is the painful elaboration of the obvious.

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.