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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong — especially if one is promptly found out.
Essays In Biography (1933)
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
If one is born a political animal, it is most uncomfortable not to belong to a political party; cold and lonely and futile it is.
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged.
Essays In Biography (1933)
I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.
Essays In Biography (1933)
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas — and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists.
Essays In Biography (1933)
The next move is with the head, and fists must wait.
Essays In Biography (1933)
Nothing can be settled in isolation. Every use of our resources is at the expense of an alternative use.
How to Pay for the War (1940)
I do not know which makes a man more conservative — to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.
He had one illusion — France; and one disillusion — mankind, including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)
If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
If Mr. Lloyd George had no good qualities, no charms, no fascinations, he would not be dangerous. If he were not a syren, we need not fear the whirlpools.
Essays In Biography (1933)
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 behaviour and religion.
By what modus operandi does credit restriction attain this result? In no other way than by the deliberate intensification of unemployment.
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.
Essays In Biography (1933)