racket quotes

I have been increasingly moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Romethat they should cover their faces or burst into laughter when they met on the street.

- Frank Hyneman Knight
  Collected in Essays on theHistory and Method of Economics (1956).

I'm furious about the Woman's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

- Anita Loos
Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.