Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

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.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Who asked them dern pigs?” he said. “I guess they tracked us, ” Augustus said. “They’re enterprising pigs.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.

I think rage is so ugly.

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.

Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.