"The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags."

"Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required."

"Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion."

"The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world."

"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."

"I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated."

"The roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"The roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."