 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. |
| Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. |
| 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. |
| Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. |
| It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. |
| Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. |
| I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. |
| If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. |
| Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. |
