“War remains the decisive human failure.”

“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.”

“There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.”

“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”

“If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).”

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”