I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.

Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits-a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.