Ensnared by the universal but unusable truth that everything depends on everything else, a complicated theory is always a bad theory. Misfortunes test the soul. The weak man dwells upon them and sinks beneath them, the shrewd man lives around them, while the wise man meditates upon them and goes beyond them. Ideas without passion illuminate but do not inspire. Ideas are the capital of civilization and words are its media of exchange.
All charity tends to corrupt, and absolute charity corrupts absolutely.
Charles Issawi was Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics at Columbia University 1. The total amount of evil in any system remains constant. The Course of Progress Most things get steadily worse. A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. The Dialectics of Progress Direct action produces direct reaction.