A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge — that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.