How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

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

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.