Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.
I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Conflating thought experiments with reality could slow the deployment of AVs that are reliably safer than human drivers.
I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.
You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.
Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies.
The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
