“Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies:
Not goods, but trade-marks; and still more and more
In every branch becomes the sale of money.”

p, 125
The Morals of Economic Irrationalism (1920)

"Albert, Prince" The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Ed. Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed on 20 November 2008 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t115.e51

As quoted in Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (1995), by Roger Lowenstein, p. 77

Source: The Haystack Syndrome (1990), p. 19; as cited by: Gerald P. Marquis (2011) A Framework for Propagating Measures of Performance Throughout Organizations Using Object-oriented Technology., p. 10

As quoted in Charting the Candidates '72 (1972) by Ronald Van Doren, p. 7
1940s–present
Context: The state — or, to make the matter more concrete, the government — consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Naples '44

On BBC TV (15 December 1976).
1970s