Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

We live in deeds

Philip James Bailey

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

Paul Samuelson

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Don DeLillo

The most complex things are the simplest.

Agni Celeste

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

Virginia Woolf

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.

Yiddish Proverb

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

Jil Sander

Our work is a scream of freedom.

Christo

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

Frank Auerbach

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln