They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.
John Maynard KeynesThe ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
John Maynard KeynesThe importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
John Maynard KeynesMost men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes