The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and inter...
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.
If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world wi...
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...
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.