It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.

One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.