Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Recurrent speculative insanity and the associated financial deprivation and larger devastation are, i am persuaded, inherent in the system. Perhaps it is better that this be recognized and accepted.

C'é infatti un numero considerevole di persone di cultura convinte che qualsiasi sforzo riuscito per rendere le idee vive, intellegibili e interessanti sia una manifestazione di scarso rigore professionale. E' questa la fortezza dentro la quale regolarmente si rifugiano.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.