It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.
When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.
Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.
I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all.
In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of the orthodox academics. Yet he, at the same time, is more encouraging than they, for he releases hope as well as terror from Pandora's box, while they preach only the gloomy doctrine that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
We are always chasing after things that other companies won't touch. That is a big secret to our success.
If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.
As you spend time in God's Word and understand his love, the Holy Spirit will create new desires within you to love and serve others like never before.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.