Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.

Human history makes everlasting peace seem possible only in theory.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.