Capitalism is the astounding belief that the wickedest of men will do the wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

It [economics] is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens.

In the long run we are all dead.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.

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

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.