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

Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.

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

A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which do not really make much difference to the prospective yield; since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

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

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.

Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.