The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. |
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. |
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones. |
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems / the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. |
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. |
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. |
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. |
The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit |
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. |
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. |
The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life - will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propens |
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas |
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas |
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. |
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out. |