经济学的第一课是稀缺：从来没有足够的任何一种东西能够满足所有人对其需要。政治学的第一课是摒弃经济学的第一课。

不平等的代价不仅由处于劣势的人承担，而是由整个社会承担。

Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind， as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another， yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

教人学习却坚持有天命的观点，这就好像叫人包起头发来却有去掉了他的帽子。