Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Every individual... neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it... he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment would result in the demolition of society.

-- Karl Polanyi

The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

-- Seichō Matsumoto

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

-- Henrik Ibsen

The benefit morality gives us is economy of time and effort. The damage it does is the complete paralysis of conscience.

-- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Be not defeated by the rain, be not defeated by the wind.

-- Kenji Miyazawa

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo