“Without an industrial economy, the modern army, as in America, could not exist; it is an army of machines. Professional economists usually consider military institutions as parasitic upon the means of production. Now, however, such institutions have come to shape much of the economic life of the United States.”
The Power Elite (1956)
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Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter One, Nature of Political Economy, p. 8

Source: The Livelihood of Man (1977), Ch. 2 : The Two Meanings of Economic

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"Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint." (1969)

“The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.”
Interview on "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson" promoting the latest edition of his book The Natural Superiority of Women (orig. 1952)
Quoted in David Berg, Run, Brother, Run http://books.google.gr/books?id=FWwXuRNRup8C&dq=, Simon and Schuster, 2013, p. 242.