More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I can measure the motions of bodies,” Sir Isaac Newton once observed, “but I cannot measure human folly.

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

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.