The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for s… - John Kenneth Galbraith

Prices driven up by the expectation that they would go up, the expectation realized by the resulting purchases. Then the inevitable reversal of these expectations because of some seemingly damaging event or development or perhaps merely because the supply of intellectually vulnerable buyers was exhausted.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplifications of our culture.

Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man... begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization — the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.