The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.

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.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.

the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

Come on outside when youʹre done,ʺ I told her. ʺItʹs like the barbecue of the damned. Except . . . thereʹs no grill.

A church must grow larger and smaller at the same time. Larger through worship and smaller through small groups.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.