1. “The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.”
2. “Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.”
3. “Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”
4. “One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.”
5. “Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
6. “The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
7. “Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
8. “A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.”
9. “Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.”
10. “It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.”
11. “Conscience is better served by a myth.”
12. “If you’re rich you can buy books. If you’re poor, you need a library.”
13. “It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.”
14. “Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.”
15. “In a affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.”
16. “If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.”
17. “Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.”
18. “Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.”
19. “Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.”
20. “One man’s consumption becomes his neighbor’s wish.”
