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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)
Marshall, remembering his mixed parentage, used to say 'Francis is a charming fellow, but you must be careful with Ysidro!'"
Essays In Biography (1933)
The State is a sovereign body of which the purpose is to promote the greatest good of the whole.
A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)
Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different compartments of the soul — religion and business.
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Men will not always die quietly.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
The appropriate time for the ultimate release of the deposits will have arrived at the onset of the first post-war slump.
How to Pay for the War (1940)
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion—how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.
Laissez-faire and Communism (1926)
Economics is a very dangerous science.
Essays In Biography (1933)