The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick

[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.

Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.

But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

... 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.

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.